Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie
38.00 NZD
Category: Military
The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. 'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.' March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops a ...Show more
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: Military | 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
Searching For Charlie - In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC & Bar by Tom Scott
50.00 NZD
Category: Military | 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
Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire by Michael Palin
40.00 NZD
Category: History
Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry. From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. ...Show more
The Front Line: Images of New Zealanders in the Second World War by Glyn Harper; Susan Lemish
80.00 NZD
Category: Military
NEW ZEALAND'S WAR THROUGH THE LENS OF THOSE WHO SERVED A landmark book exploring New Zealand's second world war effort through over 800 photographs, many never before published and many live-action shots takenby those at the front. The images span North Africa, Europe and the Pacific, as well as action ...Show more
Le Quesnoy 1918 by Christopher Pugsley
40.00 NZD
Category: Military
The New Zealand Division's capture of the French town of Le Quesnoy was its last and most successful action in the First World War. Breaking through defensive lines and scaling the town walls by ladder, the New Zealanders overwhelmed the defenders, freeing the town after years of German occupation. It w ...Show more
Mosquito Men - The Elite Pathfinders of 627 Squadron by David Price
25.00 NZD
Category: Military
In November 1940, a remarkable prototype aircraft made its maiden flight from an airstrip north of London. Novel in construction and exceptionally fast, the new plane was soon outpacing the Spitfire, and went on to contribute to the RAF's offensive against Nazi Germany as bomber, pathfinder and night fi ...Show more
Masters of the Air: How the Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine by Donald L. Miller
30.00 NZD
Category: Military
Soon to be a major television event from Apple TV and Steven Spielberg, and companion to Band of Brothers and The Pacific. 'Seconds after Brady's plane was hit, the Hundredth's entire formation was broken up and scattered by swarms of single-engine planes, and by rockets launched by twin-engine planes t ...Show more
Te Ata o Tū: The Shadow of Tumatauenga by Matiu Baker, Katie Cooper, Mihael Fitzgerald and Rebecca Rice (editors)
70.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
The New Zealand Wars of 1845-72 were a series of bitter and bloody conflicts between Maori and Pakeha that extended from Wairau to the Bay of Islands, and from Taranaki to the East Cape. They are as important to New Zealand as the civil wars were to England and to the United States. Land and sovereignty ...Show more
World War I (DK Eyewitness) (HB) by DK
26.00 NZD
Category: Military
In collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, go back in time and experience history with this picture-led guide to the First World War. From disaster to victory, Eyewitness World War I captivates readers and gives an insight into life in the muddy trenches, and what it was like to be a soldier, along ...Show more
The Little Book of ANZACS: Lest We Forget by Orange Hippo!
17.00 NZD
Category: Gift | Series: The\Little Book Of... Ser.
The ANZAC experience through the eyes of the ordinary men that were there: raw authentic accounts from infantrymen not historians. Young nations do the bidding of empire and send their youth to a faraway war. Their soldiers arrive with a reputation for rebelling against authority and ill-discipline. The ...Show more
We Were Blackwater: Life, death and madness in the killing fields of Iraq - an SAS veteran's explosive true story by Barrie "Baz" Rice
50.00 NZD
Category: Military
This is the untold story of the security industry and its private war in Iraq, recounted by a man who witnessed it first hand. His visceral, no-holds-barred account of his time with Blackwater is brought to life in scenes that lead to a reckoning with both the war and himself. The aftermath of the 200 ...Show more