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.
New Zealand: A Short History by Laurie Barber
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Social & Cultural History
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