Voices from a Border War: Borneo 1963-1965 by Robert Gurr
$39.99 NZD
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Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: New
The factual accounts of the preparation and commitment to active operations of a Regular New Zealand battalion are at the core of this narrative. To many outsiders, the confrontation activities of Indonesia from 1963 to 1966 were something of a sideshow on the world stage. If they were, the resulting co ...Show more
The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
This bestselling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference to the history of New Zealand. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce f ...Show more
Summer Ships by Colin Amodeo
$69.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
A comprehensive illustrated account of the first six ships sent out from England to New Zealand by the Canterbury Association in 1850 - 1851. A4 format.
Official History: The Pacific : New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-1945 by Oliver A. Gillespie
$49.99 NZD
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Category: New Zealand Historical | Series: Official History Ser. | Reading Level: New
This Volume is the Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-1945 and was originally published in 1952 by the Government of New Zealand, through the War History Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs. The Pacific is a tribute, to the men who fought in a campaign which was singul ...Show more
Flight Path Dunedin: A History of Aviation in Otago by Jim Sullivan
$49.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
Did New Zealand aviation begin in Arrowtown in 1869? Did a Dunedin man make New Zealand's first flight in 1910? The story of aviation in Otago throws up some intersting questions and the answers, along with the detailed history of Dunedin's airports at Green Island, Taieri and Momona, provide a fascinat ...Show more
Men of Valour: New Zealand & the Battle for Crete by Ron Palenski
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: Very Good
For a time in the Second World War, Crete was the prize both sides wanted. The Allies had it and the Germans wanted it. The Germans won. The man in charge of hanging on to it was Bernard (Tiny) Freyberg, the New Zealand Divison commander who was made the Greek island s intended saviour. With him was a r ...Show more
Peace, Power & Politics: How New Zealand Became Nuclear Free by Maire Leadbeater
$55.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: Near Fine
This is a story of how ordinary people created a movement that changed New Zealand's foreign policy and our identity as a nation. The story of peace activism from our pre-recorded history to 1975 was told in Peace People: A history of peace activities in New Zealand (1992) by Elsie Locke. In this new bo ...Show more
Best Mates: Three Lads Who Went to War Together by Philippa Werry
$19.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
The three young soldiers in the story are best friends from school, and they leave New Zealand together to go and fight at Gallipoli. Landing first in Egypt, they travel by ship to Anzac Cove and dig into trenches to fight the Turkish troops holding the peninsula. Conditions are tough and Joe gets sick, ...Show more
Soldier to Settler: An Irish Boy In The British Army Comes To Auckland And Becomes An Otago Pioneer by Donald Offwood
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
This dramatized and historically correct novel follows Patrick Murtagh, who as a poor Irish boy joins the British Army in 1820. After serving in India, he is discharged into the famines of the 1940s in Ireland. As a man of 'good character' he is able to re-join the Army in 1847 and come to New Zealand w ...Show more
Victory by Max Lambert
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: Very Good
The definitive account of the New Zealand air crews' heroic and often deadly role in the dramatic and dangerous invasion of Europe in 1944 to the fall of Berlin the folliwng year. 'Just another name, another place, another time for dying.' From hunting U-boats over the heaving waters of the cold Atlanti ...Show more
Working Lives, 1900s: A Photographic Essay by Eric Olssen
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
For the men and women of the skilled trades in the early 20th century, the skills and knowledge of their respective crafts were a source of identity and pride. Together with the so-called unskilled, who built the infrastructure for the new society, these workers laid the cultural and social foundations ...Show more
Hamilton's Jet: The Biography of an Icon by John Walsh
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
This is the story of an iconic New Zealand company. The first stirrings of the embryonic engineering enterprise that became CWF Hamilton & Co Ltd began 75 years ago on a high country sheep station at the foot of Mt Cook. At Irishman Creek Station the inventive Kiwi farmer, Bill Hamilton, and his ide ...Show more