Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph by T. E. Lawrence
$15.00 NZD
Category: First World War
In his classic book, T.E. Lawrence--forever known as Lawrence of Arabia--recounts his role in the origin of the modern Arab world. At first a shy Oxford scholar and archaeologist with a facility for languages, he joined and went on to lead the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Turks while the rest of the ...Show more
A Soldier's Life - General Sir Ian Hamilton, 1853-1947 by John Lee
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biographies and memoirs
In this illustrated account of a remarkable man and a brilliant soldier, John Lee reveals that Gallipoli was a doomed exercise almost from the start and that Hamilton, though largely exonerated by the Dardanelles Commission which investigated the campaign, deserves to have his entire career re-assessed. ...Show more
Auckland Infantry - The Story of the Auckland (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own) and North Auckland Regiments and of the Citizen Soldiers who served New Zealand by Peter Cooke, John H Gray & Ken Stead
$50.00 NZD
Category: First World War
The long-awaited history book of the 3rd Battalion, Auckland (Countess of Ranfurly's Own) Northland and all of its predecessors is now available. It is the first detailed history of the 'Aucks' and the 'Norths' (also incorporating the Cadet Units) from the formation of the first militia units in the 184 ...Show more
Stoker's Submarine by Brenchley Fred
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Naval History
On April 25 1915, the day the Anzacs landed at Gallipoli, Lt Commander Henry Gordon Stoker set out as captain of the Australian submarine AE2 on a mission to navigate the Dardanelles Strait. That Stoker managed to find a way through the narrow Dardanelles against unknown current, mines and withering ene ...Show more
Private Wars: Personal Records of the Anzacs in the Great War by Greg Kerr
$25.00 NZD
$30.00 (16% off)
Category: First World War
Greg Kerr's book retraces the journey of the Australian and New Zealand troops from Gallipoli in 1915 to the final penetration of the Hindenburg Line in 1918. Although the author covers the general strategic course of the war, his primary concern is with the 'personal' human factor.
Little Book of the Concise History of Wwi by Morgan Pat
$10.00 NZD
Category: First World War
On 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo, a Bosnian Serb student shot the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The assassination plunged the world into a global conflict that was to scar human history and redefine the meaning of the word ‘war’. When the war ended in 1918, four empires had ceased to exi ...Show more
Once on Chunuk Bair : The Play by Maurice Shadbolt
$15.00 NZD
Category: First World War
Out of Print. Second-hand copy. The playscript.
Gallipoli: A Short History by Michael McKernan
$15.00 NZD
Category: First World War
Jack Fothergill worked on Melbourne's trams before he went to war and was killed on Pine Ridge on 25 April, 1915. In Gallipoli, Michael McKernan tells Jack's story and that of his family, who never recovered from their grief. He also tells the stories of journalist Charles Bean, Chaplain Bill McKenzie, ...Show more
The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine by Lt Colonel C. Guy Powles
$75.00 NZD
$80.00 (6% off)
Category: Rare and antique books (military history)
The New Zealanders at Gallipoli by Major Fred Waite
$60.00 NZD
$75.00 (20% off)
Category: Rare and antique books (military history)
Hidden Stories of the First World War by Jackie Storer
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: First World War
"Lieutenant William Andrews and his Sappers had been working through the night building a machine gun emplacement in the ruins of the newly retaken French village of Contalmaison when a blast blew him off his feet. The 23-year-old Irishman's helmet had taken the full force of a piece of flying shrapnel ...Show more
Anzac: The New Zealanders At Gallipoli by Christopher Pugsley
$10.00 NZD
$15.00 (33% off)
Category: First World War
The most infamous war story in New Zealand history with photos, maps and text.