New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front by Wright Matthew
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military
In The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front, historian Matthew Wright goes to the heart of how the First World War affected the lives of ordinary New Zealanders. The book analyses what it was like for New Zealand soldiers at the two main battle fronts where they fought, and frames i ...Show more
Triumph on the Western Front: Diary of a Despatch Rider with the ANZACs 1915-1919 by Oswald Harcourt Davis
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military
Share the experiences of a Despatch Rider during World War 1 by reading his own words written as a diary during his years on the Western Front. Oswald Harcourt Davis joined the Royal Engineers in 1916 and arrived in Abbeville, Somme, France in July that year. He was attached to the ANZACs and dished out ...Show more
Man of Iron: The Extraordinary Story of New Zealand WWI Hero Lieutenant-Colonel William Malone by Jock Vennell
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military
Lieutenant-Colonel William Malone is one of New Zealand's best-known First World War soldiers, having held off fierce Turkish counter-attacks for nearly two days before being killed by a shell from a British warship. The defence of Chunuk Bair has been described as one of New Zealand's finest hours. Mal ...Show more
Official History: The Pacific : New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-1945 by Oliver A. Gillespie
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Series: Official History Ser. | Reading Level: New
This Volume is the Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-1945 and was originally published in 1952 by the Government of New Zealand, through the War History Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs. The Pacific is a tribute, to the men who fought in a campaign which was singul ...Show more
U-Boat in New Zealand Waters: U 862's War Patrol of Gisborne and Napier by Gerald Shone
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military
U-boat In New Zealand Waters is a book about the farthest U-boat patrol of World War Two, a journey which brought the ultra-long-range submarine U 862 to New Zealand's East Coast in January 1945. U 862 was one of three U-boats based in the Far East chosen in Berlin for operations against merchant shippi ...Show more
The Great War For New Zealand - Waikato 1800-2000 by Vincent O'Malley
79.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
A monumental new account of the defining conflict in New Zealand history. It was war in the Waikato in 1863-64 that shaped the nation in all kinds of ways: setting back Maori and Pakeha relations by several generations and allowing the government to begin to assert the kind of real control over the coun ...Show more
New Zealand Western Front Campaign by Ian McGibbon
79.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military
Between 1916 and 1918 New Zealand fought the bloodiest and most traumatic campaign in its military history. This authoritative book re-assesses and challenges many of the myths surrounding the role NZ troops played in the Western Front campaign.
Best and Bravest: Kiwis Awarded the Victoria Cross by Glyn Harper
19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military
The incredible stories of the New Zealanders who have been awarded the Victoria Cross for courage under fire, from WWI to the war in Afghanistan. Here are the stories of the 27 men who won the Victoria Cross in both world wars and in Afghanistan in the 21st century - fighting heroes who risked their own ...Show more
Acts of Valour - The History of the Victoria Cross and New Zealand by Glyn Harper; Colin Richardson
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military
A Long, Long Trail: Marching over the Rimutaka Hill, 1915-1918, and the re-enactment march, September 2015 by Neil Francis
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military
A Long, Long Trail is the story of the famous Rimutaka Hill marches. The New Zealand Army used the Rimutaka Hill road, between Wairarapa and Hutt Valley, as the ultimate fitness test for infantry about to embark for service on the Western Front in World War One. Over 30,000 soldiers climbed to the 555 m ...Show more