Bean's Gallipoli - The diaries of Australia's official war correspondent by Kevin Fewster (ed)

$20.00 NZD

Category: World War I | Reading Level: very good

News From the Front: War Correspondents on the Western front 1914-18 by Martin J Farrar

$15.00 NZD

Category: World War I | Reading Level: good-very good

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History by Jay Winter

$16.00 NZD

Category: World War I | Series: Canto Classics | Reading Level: very good

Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European reaction to the appalling events of 1914-18, Dr Winter instead argues that what characterised that reaction was, rather, the attempt to interpret the Great War within traditional frames of reference. Tensions arose inevitably. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning is a profound and moving book of seminal importance for the attempt to understand the course of European history during the first half of the twentieth century. ...Show more

Gallipoli: A Guide to New Zealand Battlefields and Memorials by Ian McGibbon

$14.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Gallipoli is one of the most significant sites in the story of New Zealand's First World War - a symbol of great sacrifice and camaraderie, and the heart of ongoing Anzac commemorations. Gallipoli- A Guide to New Zealand Battlefields and Memorialsis the indispensable handbook to the history and geograph ic features of the campaign for a modern, general readership. Easy-to-follow and highly illustrated, it introduces the battlefields, cemeteries and memorials, detailing the stories behind each and offering historical overviews of New Zealand's involvement more generally. The perfect introduction to New Zealand's Gallipoli. ...Show more

Reconsidering Gallipoli by Jenny Macleod

$15.00 NZD

Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good

In Australia, Anzac Day, the anniversary of the first landings at Gallipoli, is one of the most important dates in the national calendar. Yet in Britain, the campaign is largely forgotten. The key to this contrast lies in the way in which the campaign's history has been recorded. To many Australians, th e Anzac legend is a romantic war myth that proclaims the prowess of Australian participants in the campaign. It is an exercise in nation-building. In Britain, the campaign is also remembered in romantic terms, but the purpose here is to assuage the pain of defeat. Reconsidering Gallipoli broadens the debate over the cultural history of the First World War beyond the Western Front. The final chapter traces the influence of the early accounts on subsequent portrayals including Alan Moorehead's 1956 book, Bean's post 1965 rehabilitation, Peter Weir's 1981 film, and revisionist attacks on the legend. ...Show more

Gallipoli: Untold Stories from War Correspondent Charles Bean and Front-line ANZACS by Jonathan King and Michael Bowers

$35.00 NZD

Category: World War I | Reading Level: very good

Superb photographic book brings to life the untold stories of front-line Anzacs and the war Correspondent Charles Bean (Sydney Morning Herald) with photographs from Phillip Schuler (The Age). Although Australian originated, this book has significant NZ content.Gallipoli was a tragic campaign: 2000 Anzac s slaughtered in first 24 hours; 11,410 Anzacs in the nine months (of which 2700 were New Zealanders).This unique book combines for the first time the official recordings of Bean and Schuler: many of the photos never published before. extracts from Bean's private diaries in which he recorded the realities he was not allowed to print in his newspaper stories because of wartime censorship.Another unique element are the personal stories of more than 100 Australians and NZers who served at Gallipoli. Following an appeal to readers, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Dominion Post were inundated with memorabilia, diaries and photos from families to include in this book. ...Show more

King and Country Call:New Zealanders, Conscription and the Great War by Paul Baker

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Letters from the Battlefield - New Zealand Soldiers Write Home 1914-18 by Glyn Harper (ed.)

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

The Great War of 1914-18 saw over 100,000 young New Zealanders embark for overseas service, to fight a war on foreign soil, amidst comrades they had never met. The conditions that greeted these men are, today, hard to imagine - fields of mud, swarms of insects, swirling sandstorms, the boom of artillery , the stench of death. Letters from the Battlefield is a remarkable collection of correspondence from some thirty five young New Zealand soldiers. Notes hastily scribbled in the trenches, thoughts penned while recuperating in hospital, letters written to the loved ones of fallen friends. The words of these men take you closer to the reality of war than any official history can. They tell of survival at sea, two men clinging to a piece of wood for hours in freezing cold water until mercifully rescued; of the sickening realisation that you have been gassed, knowing that it could mean the loss of your sight - or your life; of the utter exhaustion of men forced to march, dig trenches, fight, then dig in again. Above all, the letters reflect the humour and courage of the New Zealand soldier. Together with Glyn Harper's insightful commentary on the battles and military action of the period, they offer a unique perspective on the First World War. ...Show more

No Better Death: The Great War Diaries and Letters of William G Malone by William G Malone (ed John Crawford)

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Lieutenant-Colonel W.G. Malone was the Commanding Officer of the Wellington Battalion of the NZ Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli. He is probably the best-known individual from that ill-fated campaign, a result both of his humanity and his superb leadership, which culminated in the successful assault on Chunuk Bair on 8 August 1915. He was killed by friendly fire while defending the crest.Malone ...Show more

Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

$16.00 NZD

Category: World War I | Reading Level: very good

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem.   In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five-month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost; then, in an astonishing reversal, encircled and trapped their Nazi enemy. This battle for the ruins of a city cost more than a million lives. Stalingrad conveys the experience of soldiers on both sides, fighting in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. Antony Beevor has itnerviewed survivors and discovered completely new material in a wide range of German and Soviet archives, including prisoner interrogations and reports of desertions and executions. As a story of cruelty, courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is unprecedented and unforgettable.   Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle. ...Show more

Massacre at Passchendaele: The New Zealand Story by Glyn Harper

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

This is the full story of the military disaster of Passchendaele in World War I. Giving a detailed account of the operation and its aftermath the author shows what happened and why, offering reasons for New Zealand's collective amnesia. It concludes with a roll-call of the soldiers who died there.

Letters from a Lost Generation First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends by Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge (eds)

$12.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

'Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heart-rending descriptions, have made me realise war like your letters' Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton, 17 April 1915. This selection of letters, written between 1913 & 1918, between Vera Brittain and four young men - her fiance Roland Leighton, her brother Edward and their close friends Victor Richardson & Geoffrey Thurlow present a remarkable and profoundly moving portrait of five young people caught up in the cataclysm of total war. Roland, 'Monseigneur ...Show more