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Living with High Explosives : The 1st New Zealand Light Trench Mortar Battery 1916-1918 by Sloane, Keith
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
The history of the 1st NZ Light Trench Mortar Battery, 1916-1918 on the Western Front. Daily, weekly record of 232 soldiers of the 1/NZ Light Trench Mortar Battery. Battle stories, deaths, wounded soldiers, honours awarded, sports played, individual soldier stories, good and bad. Ex Royal Navy absconder ...Show more
News From the Front: War Correspondents on the Western front 1914-18 by Martin J Farrar
$15.00 NZD
Category: World War I | Reading Level: good-very good
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History by Jay Winter
$16.00 NZD
Category: World War I | Series: Canto Classics | Reading Level: very good
Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective ...Show more
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
Reconsidering Gallipoli by Jenny Macleod
$15.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
In Australia, Anzac Day, the anniversary of the first landings at Gallipoli, is one of the most important dates in the national calendar. Yet in Britain, the campaign is largely forgotten. The key to this contrast lies in the way in which the campaign's history has been recorded. To many Australians, th ...Show more
Gallipoli: Untold Stories from War Correspondent Charles Bean and Front-line ANZACS by Jonathan King and Michael Bowers
$35.00 NZD
Category: World War I | Reading Level: very good
Superb photographic book brings to life the untold stories of front-line Anzacs and the war Correspondent Charles Bean (Sydney Morning Herald) with photographs from Phillip Schuler (The Age). Although Australian originated, this book has significant NZ content.Gallipoli was a tragic campaign: 2000 Anzac ...Show more
Defeat at Gallipoli by N. Steel
$14.00 NZD
Category: World War I | Reading Level: very good
The participants in the battle of Gallipoli tell the story of the failed offensive through contemporary accounts and memories recorded later in life. The bitter campaign against the Turks from April 1915 to January 1916 was ill-conceived, inadequately equipped and never likely to succeed.
Battle for Empire - The Very First World War 1756-63 by Tom Pocock
$8.00 NZD
Category: World War I | Reading Level: good
The first world war was notthat which began in 1914, but the co-called Seven Years War which, in 1756, brought into being global conflict. The new factor which dramatically altered the course of history was British sea power. With the support of the navy, a few thousand men dispossessed the French of th ...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
Gallipoli by Peter Hart
$30.00 NZD
Category: World War I | Reading Level: very good
This is a gripping, revisionist account of an epic tragedy. One of the most famous battles in history, Gallipoli forced Churchill from office, established Turkey's iconic founder Mustafa Kemal ('Ataturk') and marked Australia's emergence as a nation in its own right. It had begun as a bold move led by t ...Show more