And Not To Yield by Thora Parker
$47.50 NZD
Category: Early NZ
The story of the Drake family and descendents from 1840-1940. Thomas and Selina Drake departed Plymouth for New Zealand on the Tory in October 1839. The author gives an account of the activities of the descendents of this pioneer couple.
The Prison Diary of A.C. Barrington: Dissent and Conformity in Wartime New Zealand by John Pratt
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ & World War II | Reading Level: Very Good
A.C. (Archie) Barrington was a leading New Zealand pacifist during World War 2. Incarcerated in Mount Crawford Prison for his beliefs in 1941, he kept an illicit diary, scrawled in the margins of books. Many years later his son John happened across the diary and painstakingly reconstructed it. Such docu ...Show more
Soldier Sailor and Airman Too: The Fighting Life of Group Captain A. B. "Woody" Woodhall by Woody Woodhall
$47.50 NZD
Category: NZ & World War II
Soldier, Sailor and Airman Too is a comprehensive history of the life and career of Group Captain A.B. Woodhall. His story provides a unique slice of British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Airforce history, spanning both World Wars and finishing in New Zealand. Not only can his story be read as a biography ...Show more
Letters to Grace: Writing Home from Colonial New Zealand by Kate Foster & Jean Garner (eds.)
$27.50 NZD
Category: Early NZ | Reading Level: Very Good
This remarkable collection of letters provides a rare female perspective on life in colonial Canterbury, when letter writing was the only way to keep a close relationship with family members on the other side of the world. The writers were four women of the Hall family. Unlike Charlotte Godley and Lady ...Show more
Yesterday's Drums - Echoes from the Wasteland by Tony Vercoe
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ & World War II
RSA Country by Rachel Teen
$25.00 NZD
Category: General NZ Military History
RSA Country opens the door to the many New Zealanders who have served in the armed forces over the years. Its pages reflect many past sacrifices, it proudly records the present, and it looks, with hope, to the future. In 2008, the 90th year since the end of World War I, Rachel Teen travelled the length ...Show more
Pioneer Families: the settlers of nineteenth-century New Zealand by Angela Caughey
$47.50 NZD
Category: NZ Social & Cultural History
Images of War: World War One : a Photographic Record of New Zealanders at War 1914-1918 by Glyn Harper
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ & World War I | Reading Level: Very Good
They shall not grow old...In 1914, despite being forbidden, many a Kiwi soldier's kitbag included a portable camera, known as 'The Soldiers' Kodak'. In a major research project, Glyn Harper and the Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum have combined official war photographs with more informal images t ...Show more
Frontier: New Zealand - The Search For Eldorado 1800-1920 by Duncan Mackay
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ Political History
Softback. 159 pages. SECONDHAND A vivid insight into the lives, work and leisure of the frontier workers and their towns in the first century of pakeha settlement in an often inhospitable and shifting world. Illustrated with many remarkable early photographs.