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
Zero Hour - The Anzacs on the Western Front by Leon Davidson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
The First World War was only meant to last six months. When the Australians and New Zealanders arrived at the Western Front in 1916, the fighting had been going for a year and a half and there was no end in sight. The men took their places in a line of trenches dug throughout Belgium and France from the ...Show more
The Home Front - New Zealand Society and the War Effort 1914-1919 by James Watson
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Chp Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The Great War is now typically regarded as senseless and futile, but most New Zealanders at the time considered it to be a war to preserve security and freedoms, to punish an aggressive enemy and to win a better world. Yet the war years proved a tumultuous time, and bitterness and animosities ran alongs ...Show more
For King and Other Countries - The New Zealanders who fought in other services in the First World War by Glyn Harper
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Chp Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealands military contribution to the First World War was a massive effort for a small country. The figure most often quoted is that from October 1914 through to October 1918, just over 100,000 New Zealanders embarked for military service overseas. But that number does not include the thousands who ...Show more
Home - Civilian New Zealanders Remember the Second World War by Alison Parr
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
While their loved ones left to serve overseas, most New Zealanders spent the Second World War at home. This book tells the stories of those who stayed behind. Based on frank, in-depth interviews, Home reveals the reality of civilian wartime life in New Zealand during the watershed years from 1939 to 194 ...Show more