Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac by Hastings David
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military History | Reading Level: very good
Ten years after the end of World War I, the Sydney Sun reported that an unknown Anzac still lay in a Sydney psychiatric hospital. 'This man . . . was found wandering in a London street during the war,' reported the paper. 'He said he was an Australian soldier. Beyond his first statement that he was a Di ...Show more
Camera in the Crowd by Pugsley Christopher
$19.99 NZD
$85.00 (76% off)
Category: NZ Military History
Filming and cinema quickly won the hearts of New Zealand from the mid-1890s, yet the story of the cameramen and the film they took here and in the First World War has never been fully captured. The Camera in the Crowd does that in style, bringing to fruition years of original research and archival work ...Show more
Phoney Wars: New Zealand Society in the Second World War by Stevan Eldred-Grigg:Hugh Eldred-Grigg
$49.95 NZD
Category: NZ Military History
Phoney Wars looks at the lives of New Zealanders during the greatest armed struggle the world has ever seen: the Second World War. It is not a political, economic or military history; rather it explores what life was like during the war years for ordinary people living under the New Zealand flag. Stevan ...Show more
Fearless: The Extraordinary Untold Story of New Zealand's Great War Airmen by Adam Claasen
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military History | Reading Level: very good
More than 1000 New Zealanders served in the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force. Several, including Sir Keith Park, later became senior air commanders of the Second World War. Among them were leading air aces, including Keith Caldwell, Ronald Bannerman and the famous tenn ...Show more
A Short History of the New Zealand Wars by Gordon McLauchlan
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military History | Reading Level: very good
Following the ongoing success of A Short History of New Zealand, Great Tales of New Zealand History and Great Tales of Rural New Zealand - all reprinted and still going strong - Gordon McLauchlan has turned his masterful storytelling skills to one of the most important periods in this country's history. ...Show more
Sinai Journal: 30 years of Kiwis serving with the Multinational Force and Observers by Sarah Chandler & Charlie O’Hara-Smith (Editors)
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military History | Reading Level: New
"It's the world’s most successful peace keeping mission - which hardly anyone’s heard of!” So says one of the many New Zealand Defence Force personnel interviewed for Sinai Journal: 30 Years of Kiwis serving with the Multinational Force and Observers. 2012 marked the thirtieth year of New Zealand’s sign ...Show more
Going into Support Tonight by Richard Palmer
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military History
Richard Palmer, formerly of Nelson, has spent the past eight years writing the book called Going into Support Tonight, which tells the story of his great-uncle Roy Haycock who fought in the 12th Nelson and Marlborough Company during World War I. Haycock was a farmer from Hope, and was only 20 years old ...Show more
Passport to Hell by Robin Hyde
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military History | Reading Level: Near Fine
Passport to Hell is the story of James Douglas Stark--Starkie--and his war. Journalist and novelist Robin Hyde came across Starkie while reporting in Mt Eden Gaol in the 1930s and immediately knew she had to write his 'queer true terrible story'. The result was greeted by John A. Lee, war veteran, autho ...Show more
Regular Soldier: A Life in the New Zealand Army by Frank Rennie
$39.99 NZD
$65.00 (38% off)
Category: NZ Military History | Reading Level: New
This title is not meant to be an autobiography or a history, it is a bit of both. What the book depicts, is the psychological strength of New Zealand soldiers and soldiering in human terms, there is nothing which the well - trained and well - led Maori / Pakeha soldier combination cannot achieve. This h ...Show more
The Silent Division & Concerning One Man's War 1914-1919 by Ormond E Burton
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military History
The book is in three parts. Part One: a re-issue, unaltered, of the acclaimed The Silent Division - New Zealanders at the Front 1914 - 1919, first published in 1935, but now including maps and illustrations. Part Two: issued for the first time; that part of Ormond Burton's hitherto unpublished autobiogr ...Show more
From the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The New Zealand Division on the Western Front 1916-1918 : a History and Guide to Its Battlefields by John H. Gray
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military History | Reading Level: New
The New Zealand Division's campaign in France and Flanders was the birth of the modern New Zealand Army. At Armentieres, First Somme 1916, Messines and Third Ypres 1917 it established a high reputation. This was enhanced in its great encounter battle when it closed a gap in the British Line on the Ancre ...Show more