From Spitfires to Vampires and Beyond - A Kiwi Ace's RAF Journey by Owen Hardy; G. A 'Black' Robertson (Editor)
$69.99 NZD
Category: Military History
World War Two Spitfire pilot Owen Hardy was probably the last New Zealand ace to tell his story. He left home at 18 bent on joining the RAF and by 1942, aged only 20, he was at Biggin Hill with 72 Squadron under Brian Kingcome. D-Day found him flying over the Normandy beaches with 485 (New Zealand) Squa ...Show more
Cold War Boys - Previously Unpublished Tales of Derring-Do from Lightning, Phantom and Hunter Pilots by Richard Pike
$55.00 NZD
Category: Military History
When the US president, Harry S Truman, declared the Truman Doctrine in March 1947, he could not have known that the resultant Cold War would persist for over 40 years until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. In addition to nuclear and conventional military friction between the Eastern ...Show more
State of Threat: Challenges to Aotearoa New Zealand's National Security by Wil Hoverd (Editor); Deidre McDonald (Editor)
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
Increasing US-China tensions, Russia's invasion of the Ukraine, disruptions to supply chains and maritime trade, right-wing extremism and evolving digital currencies . . . the international and domestic security environment is dynamic and fraught. In State of Threat, local and international academics an ...Show more
Commune: Chasing a utopian dream in Aotearoa by Olive Jones
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
In 1979, teenager Olive Jones was one of a group of hippies, idealists, and subsistence farmers that set up an alternative community on a farm in the Motueka Valley near Nelson. Influenced by the countercultural movement sweeping the country during the 1970s and 80s, they were part of a widespread inter ...Show more
We Were Blackwater: Life, death and madness in the killing fields of Iraq - an SAS veteran's explosive true story by Barrie "Baz" Rice
$49.99 NZD
Category: Military History
This is the untold story of the security industry and its private war in Iraq, recounted by a man who witnessed it first hand. His visceral, no-holds-barred account of his time with Blackwater is brought to life in scenes that lead to a reckoning with both the war and himself. The aftermath of the 200 ...Show more
Feijoa: A Story of Obsession and Belonging by Kate Evans
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
Inspired by a personal obsession with this singular exotic fruit, Feijoa is a sweeping, global tale about the dance between people and plants - how we need each other, how we change each other, and the surprising ways certain species make their way into our imaginations, our stomachs, and our hearts. ...Show more
The English and their History by Robert Tombs
$48.00 NZD
Category: History
The first full-length history of England in one volume for many decades - now in paperback The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining natio ...Show more
Most Secret - MI9 Escape and Evasion Devices by Sarah Paterson (Introduction by)
$45.00 NZD
$49.99 (9% off)
Category: Military History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Published for the first time since its creation in 1942, this 'most secret' facsimile reveals the many marvellous and ingenius escape aids created by MI9 to help Allied personnel both evade capture and escape from prisoner of war camps. From silk maps designed to be concealed in garments, tiny radio rec ...Show more
Why Memory Matters: 'Remembered histories' and the Politics of the Past (BWB Texts) by Rowan Light
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Series: 1st
Why Memory Matters
Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission by Rowland White
$40.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The incredible story of one of WW2's most iconic aircraft told through one impossible mission by the master of the aviation thriller Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls Royce engines, impossibly aerodynamic, headspinningly fast, armed to the teeth, the DeHavilland Mosquito was the ...Show more
Labour of Love - A Personal History of Midwifery in Aotearoa by Joan Skinner
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
Joan Skinner has been a midwife since 1976 and has seen extraordinary change, both in the way women are supported to give birth and in the social and political context in which they become mothers. Labour of Love weaves her own experiences as a midwife into the story of childbirth in Aotearoa: the incre ...Show more
Urgent Moments - Art and Social Change: the Letting Space Projects 2010-2020 by Mark Amery (Editor); Amber Clausner (Editor); Sophie Jerram (Editor)
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
The story of a remarkable art activation. After first occupying vacant spaces in post-stock-market-crash Auckland in the mid-1990s, public art curators Letting Space re-emerged in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. Confronted by the thin net of social welfare, the waste of the capitalist syst ...Show more