Into the Unknown: The Secret WWI Diary of Kiwi Alick Trafford No. 25/469 by Ian Trafford
$38.00 NZD
Category: War
Secondhand. A personal account of WWI from the diaries of a Gisborne farm boy, shaped into a gripping narrative by the diarist's grandson 100 years later. Follow Alick as he moves from his last night on the farm in early 1916, through enshipment and training, then off to the battle fields of France and ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars | Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: 1st
The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nations history. Fought between the Crown and various groups of Maori between 1845 and 1872, the wars touched many aspects of life in nineteenth century New Zealand, even in those regions spared actual ...Show more
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather
$28.00 NZD
Category: War
Would you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others? In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interred at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich. His mi ...Show more
Pilgrim Days - From Vietnam to the SAS by Alastair MacKenzie
$44.00 NZD
Category: War
'We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go, Always a little further; it may be, Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow.' If there was ever anyone who went a little further, a little beyond, it was Alastair MacKenzie. In a career spanning 30 years, MacKenzie served uniquely with the New Zealand A ...Show more
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum
$35.00 NZD
Category: War
The Gulag is Russia's forgotten holocaust. The largest network of concentration camps ever created, it murdered millions and haunted all those who came out alive. Here, for the first time, is the full, moving story of its countless victims- how they lived, laboured, suffered - and survived to bear witne ...Show more
The Third Day, the Frost: Tomorrow Series 3 by John Marsden
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Tomorrow Series
Book 3 of the Tomorrow, When the War Began series.
The Night is for Hunting by John Marsden
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Tomorrow Series 6
In the penultimate installment of the internationally bestselling Tomorrow series, Ellie and her friends look after a gang of orphans whose wild behavior reveals the true impact of war. Amidst a brutal war with no end in sight, Ellie and her four remaining friends discover that their hidden refuge bec ...Show more
The Other Side of Dawn: Tomorrow Series 7 by John Marsden
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Tomorrow Series 7
The Other Side of Dawn is the long-awaited, riveting, final title in the Tomorrow series about a group of teenagers in war-torn Australia. Since their home was invaded by enemy soldiers and transformed into a war zone, Ellie and her friends have been fighting for their lives. They have learned survival ...Show more
Hiroshima by John Hersey
$26.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with his heartrending account of six men and ...Show more
The Rare Metals War by Guillaume Pitron
$40.00 NZD
Category: War
The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals - but they are running out. And what will happen when they do?The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollution ...Show more
Blitzed : Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler
$28.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: WWII
New York Times Bestseller" A] fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich." -- Washington PostThe Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: coc ...Show more
ANZAC to Amiens: War Popular Penguins by C. E. W. Bean
$14.00 NZD
Category: War | Series: War Popular Penguins
The First World War was the blooding of the young Australian nation. Five years after Australia's overwhelming response to Britain's declaration of war, nearly a fifth of the 330,000 Australians who served overseas lay dead. Charles Bean witnessed it all. Appointed official war correspondent with the Au ...Show more