Crossing the Lines - The story of three homosexual New Zealand soldiers in world war II by Brent Coutts
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ & World War II | Reading Level: near fine
In Crossing the Lines, Brent Coutts brings to light the previously untold history of New Zealand homosexual soldiers in World War II, drawing on the experiences of ordinary men who lived through extraordinary times. At the centre of the story are New Zealand soldiers Harold Robinson, Ralph Dyer and Doug ...Show more
Dancing With the King - The rise and fall of the King Country 1864-1885 by Belgrave Michael
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Land Wars | Reading Level: near fine
After the battle of Orakau in 1864 and the end of the war in the Waikato, Tawhiao, the second Maori King, and his supporters were forced into an armed isolation in the Rohe Potae, the King Country. For the next twenty years, the King Country operated as an independent state - a land governed by the Maor ...Show more
Dark Journey - Three Key New Zealand Battles of the Western Front by Glyn Harper
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ & World War I | Reading Level: Very Good
This significant volume will see the completion of over seven years' writing and research by esteemed military historian Glyn Harper. The book will include the revision and reissuing of his two earlier detailed histories of the New Zealand Divisions' major Western Front battles of World War One: Massacr ...Show more
Dash and Danger, Life and Love - The Life of Major Sydney Swain Appleby, M.I.D. by Susan Ellen Laidlaw
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ & World War I
A keen member of the Boonah Troop of the Light Horse, Sydney Appleby went on to lead a reconnaissance to Cape York Peninsula, ordered by General MacArthur and from then until the war’s end, worked with the Far Eastern Liaison Office (FELO), participating in the Australian invasion at Labuan and then ul ...Show more
Dear Lizzie by Chrissie Ward
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ & World War I
'Just as dawn was breaking our barrage opened up and we got the long-looked-for word to advance. We hopped over . . . and from then on it was just one horrible nightmare. There were the boys getting killed all round us . . . It was awful. Our Company went in with 146 men and came out with 40, the rest w ...Show more
Death Among Good Men by Nathalie Philippe
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ & World War I
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
'Doc' - A Soldier's Life by Max Schwass; Denis Dewe
$17.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Doing Our Bit - New Zealand Women Tell Their Stories of World War Two by Jim Sullivan (ed.)
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ & World War II | Reading Level: very good
For this book, esteemed historian Jim Sullivan, of National Radio's Sounds Historical and the highly popular Women at War, has interviewed fifty New Zealand women about their service in World War Two. These include the obvious - from the nursing sisters and VADs who braved battlefield conditions in Egyp ...Show more
Elusive Peace: A Kiwi Peacekeeper In Angola by John McLeod
$16.50 NZD
Category: General NZ Military History
In 1986 John McLeod published Myth and Reality: The New Zealand Soldier In World War II. Though controversial it was widely praised, with one reviewer saying it was one of the most important New Zealand books ever produced. One criticism that challenged John was that you can't fully understand war until ...Show more
England and the Maori Wars by A.J. Harrop
$145.00 NZD
Category: NZ Land Wars
"Limited and Only Edition, 1000 copies.Printed in 1937."
Escape! New Zealander's World War 2 Stories by Matthew Wright
$27.50 NZD
Category: NZ Military History
'As the vehicle gathered speed, I slung over the tailboard and ran . . . I saw the look of horror on the face of the guard. His frantic cries of "Halt! Halt!" rang in my ears as I lumbered down the street. Clear by a few hundred metres, I turned to wave a triumphant farewell.' - Peter Winter'. . whateve ...Show more