Blood Brothers - The ANZAC Genesis by Jeff Hopkins-Weise

$20.00 NZD

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Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the very existence of European colonial settlement in New Zealand was under threat. Weakened by its campaigns and wars against the Maori, the New Zealand colony turned to its sister colonial states in Australia for support. This ground-breaking work shows how the Anzac spirit began not on the sandy beaches of Gallipoli, but 50 years earlier in the damp forests and fields of the North Island. ...Show more

Conquest Without Victory - A New Zealander's experiences in the Resistance Movement in Greece and France by William Jordan

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Passage to Tobruk - The diary of a Kiwi in the Middle East by Francis Jackson

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Doing Our Bit - New Zealand Women Tell Their Stories of World War Two by Jim Sullivan (ed.)

$16.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

For this book, esteemed historian Jim Sullivan, of National Radio's Sounds Historical and the highly popular Women at War, has interviewed fifty New Zealand women about their service in World War Two. These include the obvious - from the nursing sisters and VADs who braved battlefield conditions in Egyp t, Italy, and the Pacific Islands, to the Waacs, Waafs and Wrens who took over administrative roles to release men for active duty, to the less obvious - the radar operators, balloon command technicians; and the unexpected - the Wren who trained navy gunners in a forerunner of a flight simulator, the woman who delivered Spitfires from the factory to combat airfields around Britain, and the women who ran a secret listening post in an isolated Marlborough farmhouse, tapping into Japanese submarine communications. The stories are funny, tragic, compassionate and above all honest - showing the courage and fortitude of a generation of Kiwi women who were also wives, sisters, daughters and fiancées of men on active service, dealing with the emotional toll of warfare as well as its practicalities. ...Show more

Voices of Gallipoli by Maurice Shadbolt

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Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine

In the 1980s, Maurice Shadbolt began to research New Zealand's part in the tragic Gallipoli campaign of 1915, research which was to lead to s stage play and a television documentary and culminated in this book. "Voices of Gallipoli" is compeling testimony to a pilgrimage which began and ended with visit s to Trukey's haunted Gallipoli peninsula where the bones of nearly 3000 New Zealanders rest. This is a remarkable document, the distilled memories of a dozen old men who innocently set out to do battle as loyal sons of the British Empire and returned home betrayed, embittered and disillusioned, and New Zealanders. ...Show more

Gallipoli - Untold Stories from war correspondant Charles Bean and front-line Anzacs by Jonathan King; Michael Bowers

$25.00 NZD

Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good

"Nothing can alter what happened now: Anzac stood and still stands for reckless valour in a good cause, for enterprise, resourcefulness, fidelity, comradeship and endurance that will never admit defeat." - World War I correspondent Charles Bean. The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 was a series of deadly batt les followed by a brilliantly executed retreat. In just eight months, more than 11,000 Australians and New Zealanders died 'for the glory of Empire'. GALLIPOLI: UNTOLD STORIES provides a day-by-day review of these defining events from the perspective of Charles Bean, Australia's official war correspondent and Sydney Morning Herald journalist. The entries are supported by his private diaries and newspaper reports. The immediacy of his testimony is illustrated by graphic and rarely seen photographs taken by Age photographer Phillip Schuler. There are also precious accounts of daily life at war, collected in an exhaustive seach for letters, diaries and memorabilia from the families of the young Anzac soldiers who served so gallantly. GALLIPOLI: UNTOLD STORIES takes the reader deep into the thick of the campaign.Through these gripping words and images we can consider again what Gallipoli meant for the nation in 1915 and what it continues to mean to us today. Paperback 368pp h256mm ...Show more

The Occupiers - New Zealand Veterans Remember Post-war Japan by Alison Parr

$30.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Twelve thousand New Zealand men and women served in the occupation of Japan immediately after the Second World War. This book records memories from those we know as 'J Force'. Based on revealing interviews with soldiers, airmen, nurses and members of the New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, The Occ upiers explores Kiwi life in the former enemy territory between 1946 and 1948. Veterans recall the horror of witnessing the devastated city of Hiroshima. They describe their culture shock and adjustment to unfamiliar customs. And they revisit the often challenging conditions faced in a broken country. Some also reflect on shedding their intense wartime hostility and distrust to gain a surprising new understanding of the Japanese - achieved as they worked and lived alongside the ordinary people of the occupied land. Unexpected, honest and touching, these stories uncover a little-known but fascinating aspect of New Zealand's post-war experience. ...Show more

Te Hokowhitu a Tu - The Maori Pioneer Battalion in the First World War by Christopher Pugsley

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Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

1Te Hokowhitu a Tu1, into its second reprint, distinguished military historian Christopher Pugsley recounts the story of the Maori Pioneer Battalion for a new generation. Drawing on rare archival material and previously unpublished diaries and letters, he not only tells the wider story of the Battalion�? �?Â�?�?‚Â�?�?�?‚�?‚¢�?�?Â�?�?‚‚�?�?‚�?‚€�?�?Â�?�?‚‚�?�?‚�?‚™s military exploits but also gives a vivid account of daily life for soldiers on active service. Illustrated with a large number of fascinating photographs, the book includes a complete list of soldiers who fought with the Battalion that will be of particular interest to their descendants. ...Show more

Out in the Cold - Pacifists and Conscientious Objectors in New Zealand During World War II by David Grant

$30.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

New Zealanders at War by Michael King

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Revised and updated, this classic covers actions from the Maori tribal wars to Operation East Timor and includes both World Wars. This book is not a glorification of war. It is, instead, a successful attempt to capture war's privations, squalor and horrors.

On the Fringe of Hell - New Zealanders and military discipline in the First World War by Christopher Pugsley

$35.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

The story of the discipline meted out to New Zealand forces during World War I. The New Zealand Division was known as one of the finest serving in France, but part of the price paid for this was the execution of its men. By the author of "Gallipoli", this details the circumstances of those deaths.

A Fair Sort of Battering - New Zealanders Remember the Italian Campaign by Megan Hutching (ed.)

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

The New Zealand Division landed in Italy in October 1943 and entered the line at the Sangro River on 14 November. They fought up the east side of Italy, becoming bogged down at Orsogna for two months, from where they were withdrawn in January 1944. They then swapped coasts. It was unpleasant fighting an d a great contrast to the desert war. Here it was cold and wet and it snowed. But there were also compensations - many of the men got on well with the Italian people, who mostly greeted them with great enthusiasm. This book tells of those who participated in the campaign. ...Show more