A Long, Long Trail: Marching over the Rimutaka Hill, 1915-1918, and the re-enactment march, September 2015 by Neil Francis
$35.00 NZD
Category: First World War
A Long, Long Trail is the story of the famous Rimutaka Hill marches. The New Zealand Army used the Rimutaka Hill road, between Wairarapa and Hutt Valley, as the ultimate fitness test for infantry about to embark for service on the Western Front in World War One. Over 30,000 soldiers climbed to the 555 m ...Show more
Camera in the Crowd by Pugsley Christopher
$60.00 NZD
$80.00 (25% off)
Category: First World War
Filming and cinema quickly won the hearts of New Zealand from the mid-1890s, yet the story of the cameramen and the film they took here and in the First World War has never been fully captured. The Camera in the Crowd does that in style, bringing to fruition years of original research and archival work ...Show more
Taking the Ridge: Anzacs and Germans at the Battle of Messines 1917 by Jeffrey McNeill
$79.99 NZD
Category: First World War
New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front by Wright Matthew
$49.99 NZD
Category: First World War
In The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front, historian Matthew Wright goes to the heart of how the First World War affected the lives of ordinary New Zealanders. The book analyses what it was like for New Zealand soldiers at the two main battle fronts where they fought, and frames i ...Show more
Our New Zealand Home by Mark Pacey
$59.99 NZD
Category: Second World War
In 1943 two battalions of the United States Marine Corps camped in Masterton. From February to September this small New Zealand town played host to the Americans. Many residents remember these young men fondly and all said they had livened up the town that had been darkened by years of war. Our New ...Show more
G F Von Tempsky Artist & Adventurer by Rose Young; Heather Curnow; Michael King
$250.00 NZD
$700.00 (64% off)
Category: Rare and antique books (military history)
Maori Weapons in Pre-European New Zealand by Jeff Evans
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Wars
Here is a full inventory of traditional Maori weapons with all the available written information about traditional weapons collected into one concise volume. Maori Weapons provides complete cultural and technical information on the handmade weapons used by Maori, along with photos and line drawings. Fro ...Show more
Musket Wars by Ron Crosby
$75.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Wars
First published in 1999, with an introduction by the late Michael King, The Musket Wars established Ron Crosby's reputation as a daring, original chronicler of New Zealand history. This best-selling history provides the first comprehensive account of the wars that ravaged the country in the early 1800s, ...Show more
Tiger I and Tiger II Tanks - German Army and Waffen-SS the Last Battles in the East 1945 by Dennis Oliver
$55.00 NZD
Category: War Gaming | Series: Tank Craft Ser.
By the first weeks of 1945, the Eastern Front had been pushed back to the Carpathian mountain passes in the south and Warsaw on the Vistula River in the center, while in the north, the German army was fighting in East Prussia. The Wehrmacht's armored and mobile formations were now employed exclusively a ...Show more
Bunty Preece Soldier of the 28 (Maori) Battalion by Tom O’Connor
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
This then is the story of Alfred (Bunty) Preece of the Chatham Islands, soldier, farmer, local body politician, kaumatua and tireless advocate for his people. His recollections of the Italian Campaign of World War Two and the effect of those two and a half years were but the beginning of a lifetime of d ...Show more
After The Treaty by Patterson, Brad
$59.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Wars
This book is in tribute to Ian McLean Wards (1920-2003), who as researcher and writer, civil servant and cultural activist, contributed greatly to promoting awareness of NZ history. The authors explore themes dear to Wards' heart, providing new insights into vital issues in 19th century colonial history ...Show more