On the Fringe of Hell - New Zealanders and military discipline in the First World War by Christopher Pugsley
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
The story of the discipline meted out to New Zealand forces during World War I. The New Zealand Division was known as one of the finest serving in France, but part of the price paid for this was the execution of its men. By the author of "Gallipoli", this details the circumstances of those deaths.
A Job to Do - New Zealand Soldiers of 'the Div' Write About Their Experiences in World War Two by John Gordon (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
What was it really like for the soldiers of 2 New Zealand Division in the Second World War? How did they spend their time and how did they see their lives as servicemen, from training at home and sailing off to war, to setting up camp, relaxing off-duty, fighting in hostile environments and possibly bei ...Show more
Freyberg's Circus - Reminiscences of a Kiwi Soldier in the North African Campaign of World War II by Noel (Wig) Gardiner
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Tells of courageous acts by ordinary soldiers in inhuman conditions, moving with Freyberg's Circus from Alamein to Tunisia, North Africa. Illustrated with b&w photos.
The World at War - The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives by Richard Holmes
$16.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
"The World at War is the definitive television work on the Second World War. It set out to tell the story of the war through the testimony of key participants - from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals. First broadcast in 1973, the result was a unique and irreplaceable record sinc ...Show more
A Sacrificial Pawn, being a Memoir of his War Experiences, Particularly of his Time as a Prisoner of the Japanese, 1942-1945 by Peter R Jackson
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
A Sacrificial Pawn is a story of survival. Peter Jackson was young and recently married when he was drafted into the army at the start of Wiorld War 2. He had no wish to be there but like most of his generation he was given no choice. Peter arrived in Singapore just as the city was being evacuated and w ...Show more
Medical Services of the R A N and R A A F - Series Five: Medical, Volume IV by Alan S Walker
$55.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Series: Australia in the War of 1939-1945 | Reading Level: very good
Images of War - The Artist's Vision of World War II by Ken McCormick; Hamilton D. Perry (Editor); John R. Hersey (Foreword by)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: good - very good
Rising '44 - The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
$12.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: good-very good
This is a narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th-century history. In August 1944, Warsaw offered the Wehrmacht the last line of defence against the Red Army's march from Moscow to Berlin. When the Red Army reached the river Vistula, the people of Warsaw believed that liberation h ...Show more
Tour of Paradise - An American Soldier in the South Pacific by Prue Ahrens (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good
No Cloak, No Dagger: Allied Spycraft in Occupied France by Benjamin Cowburn
$14.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
The memoir of SOE agent Benjamin Cowburn is rightly regarded as a classic of wartime literature. In simple, gripping detail Cowburn explains the methods of special agents who were dropped into France during the war and the ways that agents would set about establishing secure networks with the French Res ...Show more
The Good German Of Nanking - The diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good