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
The Unforgettable Army - Slim's XIVth Army in Burma by Michael Hickey
$25.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
The Conquerors - Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany by Michael R. Beschloss
$18.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
The Conquerors provides a fascinating insight into the behind-the-scenes negotiations during World War II that led to the emasculation of Germany. As Presidents Roosevelt and Truman led the United States in World War II in Europe, they had to deal with the question of what kind of government should be i ...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
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
Hitler's Diplomat - The Life and Times of Joachim von Ribbentrop by John Weitz
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
To the Kwai and Back - War Drawings, 1939-1945 by Ronald Searle
$25.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good
In 1939, as an art student, Ronald Searle volunteered for the army, embarking for Singapore in 1941. Within a month of his arrival there, however, he became a prisoner of the Japanese, and after 14 months in a prisoner-of-war camp, was sent north to a work camp on the Burma Railway. In May 1944, he was ...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
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.