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From Cow Bells to Bell Bottoms - Wartime Experiences by Francis Bentinck Heffer
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Soldier Five: The Real Story of the Bravo Two Zero Mission by Mike Coburn
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
The SAS book the British Government tried to banSoldier Five is the memoir of an elite New Zealand soldier's service within the Special Air Service and in particular, his service during the Gulf War. As a member of a Special Forces patrol, now famously known by its call sign Bravo Two Zero, he and seven ...Show more
Field Punishment No. 1: Archibald Baxter, Mark Briggs and New Zealand's Anti-militarist Tradition by David Grant
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
One of New Zealand's most extraordinary stories describes the courage of the conscientious objectors sent overseas during WW1 in a brutal attempt to force them to renounce their convictions and join the war effort. Despite torture and privation, Archie Baxter and Mark Briggs held out till the end, in on ...Show more
The Sorrow and the Pride - New Zealand War Memorials by Chris Maclean
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good-very good
Gallipoli: A Guide to New Zealand Battlefields and Memorials by Ian McGibbon
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Gallipoli is one of the most significant sites in the story of New Zealand's First World War - a symbol of great sacrifice and camaraderie, and the heart of ongoing Anzac commemorations. Gallipoli- A Guide to New Zealand Battlefields and Memorialsis the indispensable handbook to the history and geograph ...Show more
King and Country Call:New Zealanders, Conscription and the Great War by Paul Baker
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Letters from the Battlefield - New Zealand Soldiers Write Home 1914-18 by Glyn Harper (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
The Great War of 1914-18 saw over 100,000 young New Zealanders embark for overseas service, to fight a war on foreign soil, amidst comrades they had never met. The conditions that greeted these men are, today, hard to imagine - fields of mud, swarms of insects, swirling sandstorms, the boom of artillery ...Show more
No Better Death: The Great War Diaries and Letters of William G Malone by William G Malone (ed John Crawford)
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Lieutenant-Colonel W.G. Malone was the Commanding Officer of the Wellington Battalion of the NZ Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli. He is probably the best-known individual from that ill-fated campaign, a result both of his humanity and his superb leadership, which culminated in the successful assault on ...Show more
Massacre at Passchendaele: The New Zealand Story by Glyn Harper
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
This is the full story of the military disaster of Passchendaele in World War I. Giving a detailed account of the operation and its aftermath the author shows what happened and why, offering reasons for New Zealand's collective amnesia. It concludes with a roll-call of the soldiers who died there.
Voices of Gallipoli by Maurice Shadbolt
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Based on diary entries of New Zealand soldiers sent to fight the long and futile battle of Gallipoli in 1915 - during which nearly 3,000 of them died - this is an account of that tragic campaign, charting the suffering and disillusionment of those who arrived as innocent and loyal sons of the Empire. ...Show more
Campaign in Greece. The New Zealand Division in Action
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good-very good
Kiwit: No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital Volume 3 No 2., August 1945 by R J Sherriff (ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good