Nothing Significant To Report - The misadvenures of a kiwi soldier by Dario Nustrini
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Laugh-out-loud yarns from a soldier in the New Zealand Army. When new recruit Dario Nustrini's head was freshly shaved in preparation for the army, he knew nothing about what training to fight, kill and die for New Zealand would look like. Since leaving leaving high school the year before, he had been ...Show more
Bravo Kiwi - New Zealand Soldiers, Afghanistan and the Battle of Baghak by Craig Wilson
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Major Craig Wilson is a decorated former SAS member, and has been in more combat zones than any other Kiwi soldier. He was the commanding officer of Bravo Company, which lost 2 soldiers when they went to the aid Afghan police at Baghek in August 2012. Craig was left injured, shot in the shoulder, and wa ...Show more
Last Stand in Singapore - The Story of 488 Squadron RNZAF by Graham Clayton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aviation | Reading Level: very good
This history has been written using the diaries, letters, photographs and personal reminiscences of 488 Squadron, who were based just outside Singapore City and valiantly kept planes in the air against Japanese attacks until just before the city was overwhelmed.
Anzacs - Stories from New Zealanders at War by Tony Williams
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
ANZACS is the story of the reality of war as told by 24 New Zealanders who have experienced if. These are tales of human courage, resourcefulness and resilience - and sometimes humour - but also of broken bodies, crushed spirits, violence and death. The men and women who share their experiences served a ...Show more
The Whole Nine Yards - The story of an ANZAC P-40 by John King
$14.00 NZD
Category: Aviation | Reading Level: very good
This is a book about an aeroplane, a 1943 Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk flown for several months under difficult conditions in a remote tropical corner of the southwest Pacific. Abandoned at the side of an airstrip after a landing mishap, it lay forgotten for decades until it was retrieved and shipped to New Z ...Show more
Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916 - Anzacs and the Rising by Rory Sweetman
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: new
Little has been written on Trinity College's role in Easter Week 1916 as a 'loyal nucleus' dividing the insurgents and providing an effective counterweight to rebel headquarters in the GPO. This book reveals how five New Zealanders, acting as the core of a small squad of colonial troops, provided a vita ...Show more
A Bridge Over - The Story of John Masters, Veteran Fighter by Allan Marriott
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Dop November 2009, Christchurch In 1965, John Milbanke Masters was awarded the Miitary Cross for action in Borneo, for which he was made a life member of the Gurkhas. In 2002 he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Between these awards recognising gallantry and chivalry, John was ...Show more
Shrapnel and Semaphore - My Grandfather\'s Diary of Gallipoli by Jan Chamberlin
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
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Abolishing The Military - Arguments and Alternatives by Griffin Manawaroa Leonard; Joseph Llewellyn; Richard Jackson
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Abolishing The Military
Tales of Three Campaigns - 12th (Nelson) Company- A Soldier's plain unvarnished story of a part played by New Zealanders in the Great War by C B Brereton
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Description: In 1926, Colonel Brereton who had taken the 12th (Nelson) Company of the Canterbury Infantry Battalion into the Great War in the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, wrote the well-received first edition of this title. The three campaigns alluded to, were the Battle of the Suez ...Show more