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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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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, ...Show more