One Day The Soldiers Came : Voices of Children in War by Charles London
$12.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
Today there are 20 million children around the world who have been uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and poverty. In the 1990s two million children died as a result of war and communal violence. We see their faces on the nightly news or staring at us from the pages of a magazine, but rarely ...Show more
The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives by Richard Holmes
$14.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
"The World at War" is the definitive television work on the Second World War. It set out to tell the story of the war through the testimony of key participants - from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals. First broadcast in 1973, the result was a unique and irreplaceable record sin ...Show more
Zero Hour - The Anzacs on the Western Front by Leon Davidson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Military & War | Reading Level: very good
The First World War was only meant to last six months. When the Australians and New Zealanders arrived at the Western Front in 1916, the fighting had been going for a year and a half and there was no end in sight. The men took their places in a line of trenches dug throughout Belgium and France from the ...Show more
Blood, Sweat and Tears: WWII R by Geddes Margaret
$14.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
A compilation of interviews with ordinary Australians who did extraordinary things during World War II. prisoners of war, fighter pilots, nurses, and volunteers share their memories of a time of horror, tragedy, death, love and excitment.
Glass Soldier: Not All of Him Shall Die by Don Farrands
$15.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged by strength. Nelson Ferguson, from Ballarat, was a stretcher-bearer on the Western Front in France in World War I. He survived the dangers of stretcher-bearing in some of Australias most ...Show more
Citizen Soldiers from the Beaches of Normandy to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose
$12.00 NZD
Category: Military & War | Reading Level: good
An oral history of the last European campaigns of the Second World War, from the landings at Normandy to the final surrender of the Axis powers. Ambrose, who has already chronicled the Second World War in UNDAUNTED COURAGE and D_DAY, concentrates on the experiences of the ordinary soldier in the ran ...Show more
Bouncing Back - How a Heroic Band of POW's Survived Vietnam by Geoffrey Norman
$12.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
Recounts the capture and imprisonment of Al Stafford, relating the torture, humiliation, and loneliness he endured, how he resisted the Vietnamese efforts to break him, and his life in the U.S. following his release
We Will Not Fight...: The Untold Story of World War One's Conscientious Objectors by Will Ellsworth-Jones
$16.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
In June 1916 Philip Brocklesby, a young second lieutenant just arrived in Boulogne, slipped away from his regiment in a desperate attempt to see his brother who had been imprisoned nearby. But it wasn't the enemy who were holding Bert, but his own army. Bert, along with 34 other conscientious objectors, ...Show more
Warrior Nation : New Zealanders at the Front 1900 - 2000 by John Thomson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Military & War | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The story of heroes - the soldiers, sailors and airmen who left New Zealand to do battle as front-line warriors. It is the story of New Zealand's rich record of loyalty, courage and sacrifice that built the confidence of a young nation.
The Deserter's Tale: Why I Walked Away From The Way In Iraq by Key Joshua
$12.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
It is the devastating story of that war and the journey Key took with his family, fleeing across the US to finally seek asylum in Canada after 14 months in hiding. It is the story of a family man and patriot from Oklahoma, who went into the war believing in his government's commitment to integrity and j ...Show more
A Long Road to Progress by Richard Hall
$12.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
As Commander of the New Zealand troops in the Bamiyan Province of Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Hall gained a unique insight into the lives of Kiwi soldiers serving in a harsh climate amid daily threats, as well as into the lives of the locals.This is an important and fascinating view of New Zealand's ro ...Show more
A brief history of flight by T.A. Heppenheimer
$16.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
Presents a narrative history of aviation covering the key milestones, technological breakthroughs, and innovators and entrepreneurs from the dawn of balloon flight in 1783 to innovations that offer a hopeful beginning for the world's third century of flight.