An Awfully Big Adventure - New Zealand World War One Veterans Tell Their Stories by Jane Tolerton (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. *New Zealand Listener's '100 Best Books of 2013' What was it like to be a New Zealand soldier in the First World War? What impact did the war have on those who returned? Let them tell you. An Awfully Big Adventure traces the reminiscences and reflections of 80 veterans interviewed for the W ...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.
A Sacrificial Pawn, being a Memoir of his War Experiences, Particularly of his Time as a Prisoner of the Japanese, 1942-1945 by Peter R Jackson
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
A Sacrificial Pawn is a story of survival. Peter Jackson was young and recently married when he was drafted into the army at the start of Wiorld War 2. He had no wish to be there but like most of his generation he was given no choice. Peter arrived in Singapore just as the city was being evacuated and w ...Show more
Home Base - Poems on life as a Regular Force Cadet 1964-1966 by Keith Westwater
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Keith's stepmother 'Maw' gives him an ultimatum - at fifteen he either leaves school to work or joins the army. So, Keith departs Auckland and reports to the Waiouru military camp, enlisting as a regular force cadet. Home Base is a snapshot of Keith Westwater's boy-soldier life in the New Zealand Army d ...Show more
Till Human Voices Wake Us by Ian Hamilton
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
An angry, bitter, and honest account of a conscientious objector's experience during World War II. It was written in white heat shortly after the war and published privately in 1953. Besides being a personal story of time in defaulters' camps, it gives a horrifying picture of 1940s prisons.
Gallipoli 1915 by Richard Reid
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Battles Series | Reading Level: very good
Magnificently illustrated and absorbing look at Gallipoli that offers fresh and surprising insights into this important story.
Soldier Country by Jim Henderson
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
"We were there, we saw it", a sometimes exasperated cry. They bore the burden, they deserve full credit, the sands and the mud will not swallow all.Here is a collection of stories - some history, personalities and anecdotes - from the men and women who were there. Humorous, sad, pathetic, brave and all ...Show more
Historic Trentham 1914-1917 by Will Lawson
$65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
The Lost Boys - The untold stories of the under-age soldiers who fought in the First World War (HB) by Paul Byrnes
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020They were just boys. And they were to face the horrors of a war more diabolical than any of them could have imagined. This is their story. Hundreds of Australian and New Zealander boys enlisted in the First World War, some as young as 13. No one knows how many went to war, but at ...Show more
Searching For Charlie - In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC & Bar by Tom Scott
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham is the only combat soldier ever to win the Victoria Cross twice. His acts of bravery in World War II meant he probably deserved six more. The mystery of how a reserved, modest, slightly built farm valuer from New Zealand, could be so ferocious and fearless in battle has int ...Show more