Base Wallahs - Story of the units of the Base organisation, NZEF IP by O A Gillespie (ed.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Third Division Histories 3 | Reading Level: good
Blood Brothers - The ANZAC Genesis by Jeff Hopkins-Weise
$20.00 NZD
$34.95 (42% off)
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 ...Show more
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 ...Show more
Voices of Gallipoli by Maurice Shadbolt
$20.00 NZD
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 ...Show more
Anzac Fury - The Bloody Battle of Crete 1941 by Peter Thompson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
Anzac Fury commemorates the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe when 8900 Anzac prisoners of war captured in Greece and Crete were released from captivity. In 2010 it will be exactly 70 years since the 2nd AIF arrived in the Middle East to begin their extraordinary adventures in battle ...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 ...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
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 Job to Do - New Zealand Soldiers of 'the Div' Write About Their Experiences in World War Two by John Gordon (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
What was it really like for the soldiers of 2 New Zealand Division in the Second World War? How did they spend their time and how did they see their lives as servicemen, from training at home and sailing off to war, to setting up camp, relaxing off-duty, fighting in hostile environments and possibly bei ...Show more
An Awfully Big Adventure: New Zealand World War One Veterans Tell Their Stories by Jane Tolerton (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good
Secondhand. *New Zealand Listener's '100 Best Books of 2013' What was it like to be a New Zealand soldier in the First World War? What impact did the war have on those who returned? Let them tell you. An Awfully Big Adventure traces the reminiscences and reflections of 80 veterans interviewed for the W ...Show more
Freyberg's Circus - Reminiscences of a Kiwi Soldier in the North African Campaign of World War II by Noel (Wig) Gardiner
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Tells of courageous acts by ordinary soldiers in inhuman conditions, moving with Freyberg's Circus from Alamein to Tunisia, North Africa. Illustrated with b&w photos.
A Sacrificial Pawn, being a Memoir of his War Experiences, Particularly of his Time as a Prisoner of the Japanese, 1942-1945 by Peter R Jackson
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
A Sacrificial Pawn is a story of survival. Peter Jackson was young and recently married when he was drafted into the army at the start of Wiorld War 2. He had no wish to be there but like most of his generation he was given no choice. Peter arrived in Singapore just as the city was being evacuated and w ...Show more