Battle for Egypt: The Summer of 1942 (Worn Dust Jacket) by J.L. Scoullar
$120.00 NZD
$125.00 (4% off)
Category: Official History of NZ in the Second World War 1939–45
Bread and Water: the Escape and Ordeal of Two New Zealand World War II Conscientious Objectors by FOOTE W J
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ & World War II
Chris Palmer and Merv Browne were imprisoned for their pacifist beliefs in military defaulters' camps in the central North Island. To bring conditions in the camps to public notice, in 1944 they escaped to Wellington, where they distributed a pamphlet and tried to lobby politicians. The book tells of th ...Show more
Committed to Escape by D. J. Riddiford; Yvonne Riddiford
$37.50 NZD
Category: NZ & World War II
"Escaping is the most exciting activity" wrote Daniel Riddiford, describing two years of his life from November 1941 when he was captured in North Africa at Sidi Rezegh, to Christmas 1943, when he finally rejoined the Allied Forces in Italy. In the interval he had been in six prison camps across three c ...Show more
Crossing the Lines - The story of three homosexual New Zealand soldiers in world war II by Brent Coutts
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ & World War II | Reading Level: near fine
In Crossing the Lines, Brent Coutts brings to light the previously untold history of New Zealand homosexual soldiers in World War II, drawing on the experiences of ordinary men who lived through extraordinary times. At the centre of the story are New Zealand soldiers Harold Robinson, Ralph Dyer and Doug ...Show more
Doing Our Bit - New Zealand Women Tell Their Stories of World War Two by Jim Sullivan (ed.)
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ & World War II | Reading Level: very good
For this book, esteemed historian Jim Sullivan, of National Radio's Sounds Historical and the highly popular Women at War, has interviewed fifty New Zealand women about their service in World War Two. These include the obvious - from the nursing sisters and VADs who braved battlefield conditions in Egyp ...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
Four-Legged Major by Graham Spencer
$21.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Major was the mascot of the 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment of the NZ Army from 1940 to 1944, serving in North Africa, and Italy, wounded in the former and dying of illness in Italy in 1944, to be buried alongside two officers from the regiment. Such was Major's military status that an e ...Show more
Freyberg - Churchill's Salamander by Laurie Barber; John Tonkin-Covell
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ & World War II | Reading Level: near fine
A study of New Zealand's most famous general during the years 1941-1945. His command capability is seen in a new light, with the declassification of intelligence material used in Crete and Mareth. He is portrayed here as an innovative, able, tenacious and brave commander.
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
Gunner Inglorious by Jim Henderson
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ & World War II
Radio Pacific Publishing 2000 Reprint