Tell You What by Amini Debbie
$9.99 NZD
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Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: Very Good
'Poignant and powerful, and a must have" on every New Zealand bookshelf', said the Otago Daily Times about last year's volume of Tell You What. 'Could this be the start of an annual series?' asked Philip Mathews in Your Weekend. By popular request, the editors of last summer's nonfiction hit are back wi ...Show more
Post Marks: The Way We Were - Early New Zealand Postcards, 1897-1922 by Leo Haks; Colleen Dallimore; Alan Jackson
$69.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: New
The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to New Zealand picture postcards beginning in 1897, when the first official postcard was published. The 25-year period that this book covers includes the boon years in New Zealand postcard production, 1903-1910 and World War 1. As a lifelong collector, ...Show more
Going into Support Tonight by Richard Palmer
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military History
Richard Palmer, formerly of Nelson, has spent the past eight years writing the book called Going into Support Tonight, which tells the story of his great-uncle Roy Haycock who fought in the 12th Nelson and Marlborough Company during World War I. Haycock was a farmer from Hope, and was only 20 years old ...Show more
Passport to Hell by Robin Hyde
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military History | Reading Level: Near Fine
Passport to Hell is the story of James Douglas Stark--Starkie--and his war. Journalist and novelist Robin Hyde came across Starkie while reporting in Mt Eden Gaol in the 1930s and immediately knew she had to write his 'queer true terrible story'. The result was greeted by John A. Lee, war veteran, autho ...Show more
Target London: Bombing the Capital 1915-2005 by Peter Reese
$19.99 NZD
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Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
London was a target for Zeppelins and bombers during the First World War, for bombers, V1s and rockets in the Second, and for Cold War missiles and for terrorists in more recent times, yet rarely has the history of twentieth-century attacks on the capital been studied as a whole. Peter Reese, in this th ...Show more
The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land by Patrick Bishop
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Category: History
From the bestselling author of 'Fighter Boys', the true story of two ruthless adversaries and a wartime killing that shook the modern world. On a cold, bright morning in February 1942, fugitive Avraham Stern was cornered in a flat in Tel-Aviv and shot dead. His killer, Assistant Superintendent Geoffrey ...Show more
Regular Soldier: A Life in the New Zealand Army by Frank Rennie
$39.99 NZD
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Category: NZ Military History | Reading Level: New
This title is not meant to be an autobiography or a history, it is a bit of both. What the book depicts, is the psychological strength of New Zealand soldiers and soldiering in human terms, there is nothing which the well - trained and well - led Maori / Pakeha soldier combination cannot achieve. This h ...Show more
Bomber Command : Failed to Return by Steve Bond
$19.99 NZD
$79.99 (75% off)
Category: Military History
With an average age of just twenty-two, the young airmen of the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command, all volunteers, began operating within minutes of the start of the Second World War. Continually, through to May 1945, the aircrews, with the odds heavily against them, fought in defiance of Nazi aggression ...Show more
Hello Girls & Boys! A New Zealand Toy Story by David Veart
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: near fine
A seriously fun New Zealand toy story! Toys are made for playing with, but they are also serious business, as this remarkable story of New Zealanders and their toys makes clear. In Hello Girls and Boys! David Veart digs through a few centuries of pocket knives and plasticine to take us deep into the chi ...Show more
The Silent Division & Concerning One Man's War 1914-1919 by Ormond E Burton
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military History
The book is in three parts. Part One: a re-issue, unaltered, of the acclaimed The Silent Division - New Zealanders at the Front 1914 - 1919, first published in 1935, but now including maps and illustrations. Part Two: issued for the first time; that part of Ormond Burton's hitherto unpublished autobiogr ...Show more
Cannons Creek to Waitangi Te Pakehas Treaty Claim For Equality by Andy Oakley
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
The Maori Intertribal Wars 1801 – 1840 were New Zealand’s biggest tragedy of the 19th century. An estimated 43,600 natives were killed or wounded by enemy tribes. However, this cataclysmic near extinction of our early settlers is tossed aside as irrelevant when something like the special rights of a mou ...Show more
Land and Politics Ko te Whenua te Utu / Land is the Price: Essays on Maori History by M.P.K Sorrenson
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: very good
There are essentially two histories of Aotearoa. First, a long Maori history and secondly a history of Pakeha colonisation and take-over of Aotearoa. The two histories have been repeatedly stitched together . . . . For more than half a century, Keith Sorrenson – one of New Zealand’s leading historians a ...Show more