Love in Time of War: Letter Writing In The Second World War by Deborah Montgomerie
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Studies in Social & Cultural History | Reading Level: very good
Letter Writing In The Second World War This book traces the emotional and psychological ways by which New Zealanders made sense of the upheavals of war. It shows movingly and graphically that NZ soldiers were not inarticulate and insensitive 'hard men' but kept their sense of life before and after the w ...Show more
An Anzac in the Family: Private McAlpine of the 4th Reinforcements by Sherryl Abrahart
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Many families in New Zealand have an Anzac who served in WW1. Private Leslie McAlpine could have been any one of thousands of young men who left family and friends to serve his country. He was a fit, healthy young man when he left New Zealand and never completely lost hope that he would get back home. H ...Show more
Warrior Nation : New Zealanders at the Front 1900 - 2000 by John Thomson
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The story of heroes - the soldiers, sailors and airmen who left New Zealand to do battle as front-line warriors. It is the story of New Zealand's rich record of loyalty, courage and sacrifice that built the confidence of a young nation.
Voyage to Gallipoli by Peter Plowman
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
At the commencement of World War I in 1914 Australia had only been a nation for 13 years and the RAN was only three years old (NZ had been a dominion for 7 years and had no independent navy). As young men rushed to enlist, the governments of both countries had to find ways of transporting them to a war ...Show more
Ned and Katina - A True Love Story by Patricia Grace
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: Very Good
A TRUE STORY OF LOVE IN WARTIME AND IN PEACE. In Crete during the Second World War a wounded Maori Battalion soldier and a young Cretan woman fall in love when the young infantryman is sheltered by her family. After marrying in Crete, Ned and Katina come back to live in New Zealand, settling in the Far ...Show more
Pilgrimage - A Traveller's Guide to New Zealanders in Two World Wars by Garrie Hutchinson
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
There are more than 30,000 New Zealand men and women, casualties of the two world wars, buried in cemeteries and named on memorials around the world. From Gallipoli to the Western Front, Palestine and the Middle East, Greece, Crete, Italy, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, New Zealanders have fought and die ...Show more
From the Blitz to the Burmese Jungle & Beyond by Brian Hennessy; Karen McMillan
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
One man's memoir of World War II which took him from the Blitz to the jungles of Burma, to the devastation of Hiroshima.'I consider myself lucky to have survived the global carnage still myself - a reluctant soldier who had to go to war, who only ever wanted peace for everyone.' Brian HennessyBrian immi ...Show more
With Honour - Our Nation, Our Army, Our History : New Zealand's History Told Through the Collection of the QEII Army Museum by Richard Wolfe
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
The story of New Zealanders at war and in peace - a personal story, the real story, told through the collections and recollections of those men and women who were there, and illustrated from the resources of the QEII Army Museum. The history of New Zealand is intertwined with the history of her army: fr ...Show more
Gallipoli: The New Zealand Story by Christopher Pugsley
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
The Goat Hunter : Ho Chi Minh - A Kiwi Ruins His War by Billy Barnz
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
The lighter side of the Vietnam war as told by New Zealand Officer Billy Barnz. First published March 2006.
Dark Journey - Three Key New Zealand Battles of the Western Front by Glyn Harper
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
This significant volume will see the completion of over seven years' writing and research by esteemed military historian Glyn Harper. The book will include the revision and reissuing of his two earlier detailed histories of the New Zealand Divisions' major Western Front battles of World War One: Massacr ...Show more
The Great Wrong War - New Zealand Society in WWI by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good-very good
For New Zealand, World War One was wholly avoidable, wholly unnecessary - and almost wholly disastrous. Stevan Eldred-Grigg believes that the enormous cost of the war to our people was way too high - and that we still feel its effects, both socially and culturally, today. This is excellent narrative non ...Show more