Bunty Preece Soldier of the 28 (Maori) Battalion by Tom O’Connor
$75.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Miltary
This then is the story of Alfred (Bunty) Preece of the Chatham Islands, soldier, farmer, local body politician, kaumatua and tireless advocate for his people. His recollections of the Italian Campaign of World War Two and the effect of those two and a half years were but the beginning of a lifetime of d ...Show more
Courage in the Skies by Paul Harrison and Brian Lockstone
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Miltary
This is an account of that global campaign and the role of the New Zealanders who served as pilots, navigators, gunners, wireless operators, bomb aimers and ground staff from so many far flung airfields and ship.The book is largely about men, because that is the way it was: women were confined to suppor ...Show more
Crete: Death from the Skies - New Zealand's Role in the Loss of Crete by David Filer
$19.99 NZD
$49.99 (60% off)
Category: New Zealand Miltary | Reading Level: very good
Crete: Death from the Skies takes a fresh look at one of the most controversial events in our country’s military history. Many books about New Zealand’s war experiences tell stories of heroism and sacrifice and of plucky soldiers going beyond the call of duty, with blame for failure usually placed squar ...Show more
Death Among Good Men by Nathalie Philippe
$69.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Miltary
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
Definitive Pictorial Chronicle of World War II: A Daily Mail Book by Michael Wilkinson
$29.99 NZD
$79.99 (62% off)
Category: New Zealand Miltary | Series: Rare, Classic and Unseen
The Definitive Pictorial Chronicle of World War II charts the greatest event in human history, from the pre-war tensions to the final reckoning; a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 60 million people and defined the political and social landscape of our modern world. Contemporary news reports ...Show more
Duigan's Circus by Peter Cooke
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Miltary
In 1915 the most destructive war ever was consuming Europe. Responding to the call, New Zealand sent a mine-warfare unit to fight the siege for civilisation. “So fierce was this struggle,” Dr Ian McGibbon ONZM says in his Foreword, “that the inexperienced New Zealand tunnellers were initially knocked of ...Show more
Eddie Norman and 25 Battalion by Elizabeth Kay
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Miltary
When World War Two broke out, three theological students left their college in Auckland to the sound of bagpipes and volunteered to fight. Eddie Norman, aged 22 from Hawke's Bay, was one of them. A natural leader, his first experience of action was at El Alamein in 1942 as a platoon commander, and durin ...Show more
Experience of a Lifetime: People, Personalities and Leaders in the First World War by David Littlewood
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Miltary | Reading Level: Near Fine
The First World War is widely conceived as a pointless conflict that destroyed a generation. Petty squabbles between emperors pushed naive young men into a nightmare of mud and blood that killed millions and left scarred and embittered survivors.However, the ongoing reinterpretation of the First World W ...Show more
Faenza 1944 by various
$37.99 NZD
$51.75 (26% off)
Category: New Zealand Miltary
Derived from a book originally published in Italian this English version by ten authors nine Italian and one New Zealand contains ten chapters mainly about Italy during the 1939-45 period of World War Two. The 2nd New Zealand Division took part in the attack across the Lamone River near Faenza late in 1 ...Show more
Fearless: The Extraordinary Untold Story of New Zealand's Great War Airmen by Adam Claasen
$59.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Miltary | Reading Level: very good
More than 1000 New Zealanders served in the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force. Several, including Sir Keith Park, later became senior air commanders of the Second World War. Among them were leading air aces, including Keith Caldwell, Ronald Bannerman and the famous tenn ...Show more
Fighters and Bombers by Gavin Conroy (By (photographer))
$49.99 NZD
$69.99 (28% off)
Category: New Zealand Miltary | Reading Level: New
Fighters and Bombers follows on from Gavin Conroy's earlier book Precious Metal. Where the first book focused on WWII fighter planes that were either restored or based in New Zealand, Fighters and Bombers contains WWII bombers and includes other aircraft photographed air-to-air in the USA, Canada, Austr ...Show more
Fighting Spirit: 75 years of the RNZAF by Margaret McClure
$55.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Miltary
This book marks the 75th anniversary of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. It traces the broad sweep of the air force from the early twentieth century to the first decade of the 21st, and extends beyond the romance of early military aviation and the drama of World War Two to describe the diversity of role ...Show more