King and Country Call - New Zealanders, Conscription and the Great War by Paul Baker
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ & World War I
New Zealand Portrait of a Nation by Graham Stewart
$37.50 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
A pictorial parade of New Zealand since European settlement, showing the vast changes; the unbelievable growth of some towns and the demise of others. Over 850 photographs tell the story of the early pioneer spirit that gave the country the solid base which generations have built on to make it a country ...Show more
Journey to Beersheba by Kelvin Crombie
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ & World War I
Kelvin and Lexie Crombie have lived in Israel for nearly twenty-five years. Kelvin first became interested in Israel while growing up on a wheat, sheep and pig farm at Babakin near Corrigin in the central wheat belt of West Australia. In 1986 Kelvin was asked by to become the guide at Christ Church, the ...Show more
No Ordinary Man - The Remarkable Life of Arthur Porritt by Graeme Woodfield; Joseph Romanos
$35.00 NZD
Category: General NZ Military History | Reading Level: near fine
DoP - November 2008, Wellington 360pp A biography of a multi-faceted New Zealander who achieved great things in several spheres. Among his achievements: an Olympic sprint medallist in the 1924 Olympics. A widely-respected surgeon, who became president of the Royal College of Surgeons and the British Med ...Show more
German Raiders of the South Seas The naval threat to Australia/New Zealand 1914-17 by Robin Bromby
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ & World War I
Regular Soldier A Life in the New Zealand Army by Frank Rennie
$47.50 NZD
Category: General NZ Military History
A Blighted Fame - George S. Evans 1802-1868, A Life by Helen Riddiford
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: Near Fine
Secondhand. George Samuel Evans, barrister, editor and politician, was a man of his time, born to battle. He was a zealous, driven, extremely hard-working advocate for parliamentary and colonial reform. Reckless and unpredictable, a brilliant scholar with formidable skills in both oratory and journalis ...Show more
Between Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and Europreans 1773-1815 by Anne Salmond
$75.00 NZD
Category: Maori History, Society & Culture
Early Expeditions in New Zealand Explorers & Travellers by John Pascoe
$32.50 NZD
Category: Tramping & Mountaineering
Dash and Danger, Life and Love - The Life of Major Sydney Swain Appleby, M.I.D. by Susan Ellen Laidlaw
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ & World War I
A keen member of the Boonah Troop of the Light Horse, Sydney Appleby went on to lead a reconnaissance to Cape York Peninsula, ordered by General MacArthur and from then until the war’s end, worked with the Far Eastern Liaison Office (FELO), participating in the Australian invasion at Labuan and then ul ...Show more
Fire Sugar, Fire Pudding by Colin Amodeo
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ & World War II
Pat Clark-Hall's letters from a Torpedo Boat 1943-1945 His torpedo boat was roughly the size of a large civilian cruising launch. She carried torpedoes named Sugar (starboard) and Pudding (port side). In this plywood hull with ammunition and fuel, the crews knew they were manning a floating bomb. This ...Show more
Good Luck to All the Lads: the Wartime Story of Brian Cox 1939-43 by Peter Cox
$37.50 NZD
Category: NZ & World War II
The Wartime Story of Brian Cox 1939-43 'Good luck to all the lads'. Brian Cox wrote those words in his diary on 26 August 1940, just before he and his mates from 9 Platoon of 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion experience enemy action for the first time in the Western Desert. Good Luck To All The Lads is the sto ...Show more