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The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front by WRIGHT MATTHEW
$49.99 NZD
Category: First World War
In The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front, historian Matthew Wright goes to the heart of how the First World War affected the lives of ordinary New Zealanders. The book analyses what it was like for New Zealand soldiers at the two main battle fronts where they fought, and frames i ...Show more
Freyberg: Churchill's Salamander by Laurie Barber
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
A study of New Zealand's most famous general during the years 1941-1945. His command capability is seen in a new light, with the declassification of intelligence material used in Crete and Mareth. He is portrayed here as an innovative, able, tenacious and brave commander.
Hitler by John Toland
$15.00 NZD
Category: Second Hand & Rare Books | Series: Wordsworth Military Library
This text is Jones's account of his part in British Scientific Intelligence between 1939 and 1949. It was his responsibility to anticipate German applications of science to warfare, so that their new weapons could be countered before they were used. Much of his work had to do with radio navigation, as i ...Show more
Two Peoples, One Land : The New Zealand Wars by Matthew Wright
$70.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Wars
The New Zealand Wars - at one time called the Land Wars and the Maori Wars - represent one of the most misunderstood (and misreported) 30 years in this country's history. This is the first highly illustrated volume to comprehensively detail the events and personalities who gave shape to the conflict, co ...Show more
Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to the Nobel Prize, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Roy Jenkins presents these events, while also managing to convey the contradictions and quirks in Churchill's character. Paperback (B-Form ...Show more
Bill Gentry's War, 1939-1945 - Letters by Bill Gentry; Sally Mathieson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Tiger Moths & Butterflies by P. Norman
$25.00 NZD
Category: Second World War
Tiger Moths and Butterflies: With the Airforce in War and Peace is the fascinating story of a schoolboy and his contemporaries during WWII. In 1942, Peter Norman and his friends were excited at the thought of escaping boyhood and getting into uniform to serve their country in the war. Desperate to take ...Show more
The Last Lion: Alone: Winston Spencer Churchill by William Manchester
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
In this powerful biography, the middle volume of William Manchester's critically acclaimed trilogy, Winston Churchill wages his defining campaign: not against Hitler's war machine but against his own reluctant countrymen. Manchester contends that even more than his leadership in combat, Churchill's fine ...Show more
A Fighting Withdrawal: Life of Dan Davin - Writer, Soldier, Publisher by Keith Ovenden
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Ovenden draws on public and private papers to paint a compelling portrait of Dan Davin, OUP's Academic Publisher. He charts one man's growth against the background of war and the literary-intellectual milieu of post-war London and Oxford. A New Zealander, Davin originally came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scho ...Show more
Wine, Women and Song - a SpitfirePilot's Story: Doug Brown's letters
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
To Find a PathThe Life and Times of the Royal Pacific Islands Regiment Vols one and two by James Sinclair
$270.00 NZD
Category: Other Wars
The Battle of Britain by John Ray
$5.00 NZD
Category: Second World War | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences.