Air Marshal Sir Keith Park - Victor of the Battle of Britain, Defender of Malta by Murray Rowlands
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military History
The Battle of Britain from July to September 1940 is one of the finest moments in our Nation's history. While credit rightly goes to 'The Few', victory could never have happened without the inspirational command and leadership of New Zealander Keith Park.He and Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding ensured ...Show more
Death Among Good Men by Nathalie Philippe
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military History
Lindsay Merritt Inglis was a young man who found a talent for soldiering with the First New Zealand Expeditionary Force, commanding a Machine Gun company and rising to the rank of Major. From Egypt to the Somme, Messines and Le Quesnoy, he was driven to harness the tactical use of machine guns, the kill ...Show more
The Malayan Emergency - The Crucial Years: 1949-53 by Mark Forsdike
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military History
From 1948 through the 1950s British and Commonwealth forces fought a ruthless communist insurgency on the Malay peninsula. Thanks to sound generalship and the dedication and resilience of the officers and men, the security forces eventually broke the terrorists' resolve.1st Battalion The Suffolk Regimen ...Show more
Anzac Nations: The legacy of Gallipoli in New Zealand and Australia 1965-2015 by Rowan Light
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military History
In Anzac Nations: The legacy of Gallipoli in New Zealand and Australia, 1965 - 2015, author Rowan Light examines the myth-making around Anzac and how commemoration has evolved. Anzac Nations examines three key aspects: the changing and contested meanings of Anzac from the 1960s to the 1980s; the expande ...Show more
The Battlecruiser New Zealand - A Gift to Empire by Matthew J. Wright
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military History
This book tells the story of HMS New Zealand, a battlecruiser paid for by the people of New Zealand in 1909, and when Japan was perceived as a threat in Australasia and the Pacific. Born of the collision between New Zealand's patriotic dreams and European politics, the tale of HMS New Zealand is further ...Show more
The General and the Nightingale by Dan Davin
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military History | Reading Level: near fine
Dan Davin was the author of the only substantial body of war fiction written by a New Zealand soldier during any of the wars of the 20th century in which the nation was engaged. The General and the Nightingale brings together Davins 20 war stories, some drawn from his war diaries and loosely based on hi ...Show more
Dog in the Snow: The Story of the Middle East Ski School by James Riddell
$39.99 NZD
$65.00 (38% off)
Category: NZ Military History | Reading Level: near fine
He was an Alsatian called Rex, who lived among the snows of the mountains of Lebanon and Syria. When the author first met him, in November 1941, Rex belonged to a Bishop of the Maronite Church. Rec disliked strangers, but James Riddell proved an exception. The dog became his devoted companion at the new ...Show more
The Home Front - New Zealand Society and the War Effort 1914-1919 by James Watson
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military History | 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
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military History | 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
With Them Through Hell by Rogers Anna
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military History | Reading Level: near fine
Secondhand. Signed by the author. The thousands of New Zealand men who fought in the First World War went through hell. And right beside them was another fighting force, armed with scalpels, bandages and drugs. Hundreds of doctors, nurses, stretcher-bearers, orderlies and ambulance drivers,dentists, ch ...Show more
Annie's War: A New Zealand Woman and Her Family in England 1916-19 by Susanna Montgomerie Norris
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military History
Annie's War is a remarkable book. There have been many published collections of soldiers' diaries and letters from the First World War, but never a first-hand account of one New Zealand family's life in England during these challenging and frightening years. When her sons, Oswald and Seton, decided they ...Show more
Devils on Horses : In the Words of Anzacs in the Middle East 1916-19 by Terry Kinloch
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military History | Reading Level: Very Good
'Devils on Horses is a very important book for New Zealanders, and for those who read military history. We now have an account of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade in Sinai and Palestine that at last does justice to their story. This was perhaps the finest body of New Zealanders ever to serve overs ...Show more