From the Blitz to the Burmese Jungle & Beyond by Brian Hennessy; Karen McMillan
29.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
One man's memoir of World War II which took him from the Blitz to the jungles of Burma, to the devastation of Hiroshima.'I consider myself lucky to have survived the global carnage still myself - a reluctant soldier who had to go to war, who only ever wanted peace for everyone.' Brian HennessyBrian immi ...Show more
Sinai Journal: 30 years of Kiwis serving with the Multinational Force and Observers by Sarah Chandler & Charlie O’Hara-Smith (Editors)
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: New
"It's the world’s most successful peace keeping mission - which hardly anyone’s heard of!” So says one of the many New Zealand Defence Force personnel interviewed for Sinai Journal: 30 Years of Kiwis serving with the Multinational Force and Observers. 2012 marked the thirtieth year of New Zealand’s sign ...Show more
New Zealand Society at War by Steven Loveridge
40.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: Near Fine
James Belich once argued that in New Zealand the 'grand themes of world history are often played out more rapidly, more separately, and therefore more discernibly than elsewhere', and this is certainly applicable to the Great War. New Zealand in 1914 was a leading liberal democracy with modern infrastru ...Show more
At the Margin of Empire : John Webster and Hokianga, 1841-1900 by Jennifer Ashton
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
In this remarkable biography, Jennifer Ashton uses the life of one man as a unique lens through which to view the early history of New Zealand. Born in Scotland in 1818, John Webster came to New Zealand via Australia in 1841 (after a violent encounter in the outback which he just escaped unscathed) and ...Show more
A History of the First World War in 100 Objects: In Association with the Imperial War Museum by John Hughes-Wilson
60.00 NZD
Category: Military History
A History of the First World War in 100 Objects narrates the causes, progress and outcome of the First World War by telling the stories behind 100 items of material evidence of that cataclysmic and shattering conflict. From weapons that created carnage to affectionate letters home and from unexpected it ...Show more
Beyond the Imperial Frontier: The Contest for Colonial New Zealand by Vincent O'Malley
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Beyond the Imperial Frontier is an exploration of the different ways Maori and Pakeha 'fronted' one another - the zones of contact and encounter - across the nineteenth century. Beginning with a pre-1840 era marked by significant cooperation, Vincent O'Malley details the emergence of a more competitive ...Show more
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of All Crusaders: Reynald de Chatillon by Jeffrey Lee
36.99 NZD
Category: World History
In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan could be put into action, but what puzzled investigators was the name of the person to whom the parcel was addressed: Reynald de Chatillon ...Show more
Dear Leader: North Korea's Senior Propagandist Exposes Shocking Truths Behind the Regime by Jang Jin-Sung
34.99 NZD
Category: Politics
'The General will now enter the room.' Everyone turns to stone. Not moving my head, I direct my eyes to a point halfway up the archway where Kim Jong-il's face will soon appear. As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions, a travel pass, access to strictl ...Show more
Tobruk (75th Anniversary Edition) by Peter Fitzsimons
29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
The definitive account of when Australia's famed Rats of Tobruk they took on General Erwin Rommel, The Desert Fox. The classic story of 1941's Battle of Tobruk, in which more than 15,000 Australian troops - backed by British artillery - fought in excruciating desert heat through eight long months, again ...Show more
Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
CHICKENHAWK contains the most vivid, astoundingly detailed descriptions of flying ever written. It is a devasting account of men at war, of courage and cowardice, boredom and exhilaration, lasting friendship and sudden death.Roberts Mason's war was supposed to bring the Viet Cong and the North Vietnames ...Show more
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
27.99 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother? Some have said so. What emerged for me was a brave, original wo ...Show more