The New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War I by Wayne Stack
$22.00 NZD
Category: First World War | Series: Men-at-Arms
The New Zealand Expeditionary Force earned an elite reputation on the Western Front In World War I, and the New Zealanders' war effort was a defining moment in their national history. The statistics are astonishing: of the total population of New Zealand of 1 million, no fewer than 100,000 men enlisted, ...Show more
The Betrayal of an Army: Mesopotamia 1914-1916 by N. S. Nash
$45.00 NZD
Category: First World War
The British invasion of Mesopotamia was initially successful in securing the oil fields around Basra by November 1914. Despite evidence of stiffening Turkish resistance and inadequate supply lines which relied solely on the River Tigris, the Expeditionary Force was disastrously ordered to advance on Bag ...Show more
The Ballard of Les Darcy by Peter Fitzsimons
$10.00 NZD
$15.00 (33% off)
Category: First World War | Series: Books Alive Ser.
The Ballad of Les Darcy, a biography of the legendary Australian boxer, is the latest book from Australia's bestselling author Peter FitzSimons and is exclusive to Books Alive. It's FREE in participating bookshops when a customer buys any book from The 2007 Books Alive Great Read Guide.
Hermann Goring Fighter Ace by Peter Kilduff
$20.00 NZD
$25.00 (20% off)
Category: First World War
Over the last 70 years, in countless books and essays, Hermann Goring has been defined by his crimes and excess during the Third Reich and the Second World War. But his activities as a young career military officer in World War-I have invariably been glossed over - until now. "Hermann Goring - Fighter A ...Show more
By Wires To Victory by Roy F. Ellis M.M.
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Category: Rare and antique books (military history)
The Somme - The Day-By-Day Account by Chris McCarthy
$20.00 NZD
$25.00 (20% off)
Category: First World War
Few battles in all of world history are as well-known as the Somme--and almost none were as tragically costly. Over 141 days in the summer and fall of 1916, the French and British drove the German lines back six miles, at a combined cost on all sides of more than one million men killed or wounded. This ...Show more
Gunther Plüschow - Airmen, Escaper and Explorer by Anton Rippon
$20.00 NZD
Category: First World War
Gunther Plüschow of the German Imperial Navy holds a unique place in history - during the First World War he was the only German prisoner of war ever to escape from the British mainland and make it all the way back to the Fatherland. Yet, although his daring break for freedom in 1915 is astonishing in i ...Show more
Stalemate! - The Great Trench Warfare Battles by J. H. Johnson
$10.00 NZD
$15.00 (33% off)
Category: First World War | Series: Cassell Military Classics Ser.
Millions of lives lost, and little gained: the British suffered over sixty percent of their World War I casualties during these campaigns without achieving their objective - destruction of the German front. Find out why these trench battles failed so miserably, and why both Britain and France could not ...Show more
1915, the Death of Innocence by Lyn Macdonald
$30.00 NZD
Category: First World War
Gathers firsthand accounts of the experiences of ordinary soldiers in World War I, and shows how they adapted to modern warfare
White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: First World War
The Western Front dominates our memories of the First World War. Yet a million and half men died in North East Italy in a war that need never have happened, when Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire in May 1915. Led by General Luigi Cadorna, the most ruthless of all the Great War commanders, waves ...Show more
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
$15.00 NZD
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Category: First World War
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offer ...Show more
Quinn's Post: Anzac, Gallipoli by Peter Stanley
$20.00 NZD
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Category: First World War
A very personal account of the experiences and emotions of the Anzac and British soldiers who fought at Quinn's Post, the place that was central to their defence at Gallipoli and which saw some of the most extreme fighting of the Gallipoli campaign.For the entire Anzac campaign, Quinn's Post was central ...Show more