With Honour - Our Nation, Our Army, Our History : New Zealand's History Told Through the Collection of the QEII Army Museum by Richard Wolfe
$59.99 NZD
$62.00 (3% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: Very Good
The story of New Zealanders at war and in peace - a personal story, the real story, told through the collections and recollections of those men and women who were there, and illustrated from the resources of the QEII Army Museum. The history of New Zealand is intertwined with the history of her army: fr ...Show more
Day After Day by Max Lambert
$44.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
In his bestselling Night after Night, Max Lambert wrote about New Zealanders in Bomber Command. In this long-awaited companion volume, he features their daytime counterparts - fighter pilots who fought in Europe, Asia and the Pacific during World War Two. From the mid-1930s to 1945, young New Zealanders ...Show more
The Land Girls: In a Man's World, 1939-1946 by Dianne Bardsley
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: Good
This book is based on the oral histories of 130 women who worked as land girls during the Second World War and the written interviews of 90 others. Wartime land girls broke new ground. Throughout the nation, for the first time, women were in paid employment on farms, making administrative decisions. Pre ...Show more
Voices from a Border War: Borneo 1963-1965 by Robert Gurr
$39.99 NZD
$59.99 (33% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: New
The factual accounts of the preparation and commitment to active operations of a Regular New Zealand battalion are at the core of this narrative. To many outsiders, the confrontation activities of Indonesia from 1963 to 1966 were something of a sideshow on the world stage. If they were, the resulting co ...Show more
The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
This bestselling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference to the history of New Zealand. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce f ...Show more
Summer Ships by Colin Amodeo
$69.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
A comprehensive illustrated account of the first six ships sent out from England to New Zealand by the Canterbury Association in 1850 - 1851. A4 format.
Official History: The Pacific : New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-1945 by Oliver A. Gillespie
$49.99 NZD
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Category: New Zealand Historical | 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
Flight Path Dunedin: A History of Aviation in Otago by Jim Sullivan
$49.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
Did New Zealand aviation begin in Arrowtown in 1869? Did a Dunedin man make New Zealand's first flight in 1910? The story of aviation in Otago throws up some intersting questions and the answers, along with the detailed history of Dunedin's airports at Green Island, Taieri and Momona, provide a fascinat ...Show more
Men of Valour: New Zealand & the Battle for Crete by Ron Palenski
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: Very Good
For a time in the Second World War, Crete was the prize both sides wanted. The Allies had it and the Germans wanted it. The Germans won. The man in charge of hanging on to it was Bernard (Tiny) Freyberg, the New Zealand Divison commander who was made the Greek island s intended saviour. With him was a r ...Show more
Peace, Power & Politics: How New Zealand Became Nuclear Free by Maire Leadbeater
$55.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: Near Fine
This is a story of how ordinary people created a movement that changed New Zealand's foreign policy and our identity as a nation. The story of peace activism from our pre-recorded history to 1975 was told in Peace People: A history of peace activities in New Zealand (1992) by Elsie Locke. In this new bo ...Show more
Best Mates: Three Lads Who Went to War Together by Philippa Werry
$19.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
The three young soldiers in the story are best friends from school, and they leave New Zealand together to go and fight at Gallipoli. Landing first in Egypt, they travel by ship to Anzac Cove and dig into trenches to fight the Turkish troops holding the peninsula. Conditions are tough and Joe gets sick, ...Show more