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9781869790691
Behind Enemy Lines : Kiwi Freedom Fighters in WWII
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Author:
Matthew Wright
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Between 1941 and 1945 a fair number of young Kiwi combatants found themselves loose behind enemy lines
in occupied southern Europe - mostly Greece, Yugoslavia and Italy. Most were escaped prisoners of war,
trying to reach friendly territory. A few brave souls such as John Mulgan and Dudley Perkins took even riskier
routes, actually landing in occupied territory to bolster the resistance and carry the fight to the enemy.
When need arose, the escapees fought, often as members of partisan bands. 'We decided that if it was too
late to get across to Turkey or Palestine the alternative was to kick up a bit of a bloody shindig in southern
Greece,' Bill Griffiths recalled of his experiences. Resourceful and determined Kiwis helped make life a
headache for German and Italian occupying forces.
First published April 2010, NZ
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9780473144609
Flying Navy: New Zealanders who Flew in the Fleet Air Arm
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Author:
David Allison
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The first book published by the Fleet Air Arm Museum of New Zealand. During WWII over 1200 young New Zealand men, ages 18-25, volunteered to fly for the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy. Few of them had flown before or ad seen an aircraft-carrier. They know nothing of the aircraft they would fly in the war, and had not the vaguest idea of how they would land them on the deck of a pitching and rolling carrier. All they want was to fly. This book details the flying careers of the 760 men who graduated as trained pilots, observers and airgunners.
DoP 2009, NZ
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9780790010878
I Didn't Have a Choice
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Author:
John Johnston
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John Johnston makes no bones about the fact that he was ‘an ordinary soldier’ during his time in the NZ Army in the Second World War. He says his book is
‘about soldiers, but not about fighting …’
, it is about
‘the ordinary, everyday soldier, and there were thousands of them, just like me. It’s about how we spent our spare time, what we ate, where we slept. It’s about our thoughts and our longings and what we endured. We didn’t have a choice.’
Pre-war John was a professional photographer, and it only figures that he carried his passion to battle. The images in this stunning book are the images he took as he travelled through Egypt and the surrounding areas. Not only are there the amazing images that portray his time as ‘an ordinary solider’, there is the amazing story of how he was able to avoid censorship during the war by developing his images himself using his battledress as a darkroom!
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9781869537081
Kiwis in Conflict (Scars on the Heart - rev. ed.)
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Pugsley et al
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First published as
Scars on the Heart
and based on the Auckland Museum's permanent exhibition of the same name, this is a rich and fascinating account of the impact of war through the eyes of those involved, using photographs, paintings, letters and diaries. This new edition has the latest information on New Zealanders as peacekeepers in the Middle East, the Pacific and Afghanistan, including the awarding of the Victoria Cross to Colonel Willie Apiata.
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9780790011547
New Zealand's Military Heroism
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Author:
Matthew Wright
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New Zealanders have long admired their military heroes. In New Zealand's Military Heroism New Zealand's Military Heroism Matthew Wright tells the stories of heroes from all the major conflicts that New Zealanders have played a part in over the last 150 years, including the New Zealand Wars, the two World Wars and peacekeeping duties in the 1990s. Using selected military campaigns and the stories of decorated service people, this richly illustrated and thoroughly researched book offers new ways of understanding New Zealand's military heroism. By looking at soldiers' ideals of courage and investigating the definition of heroism, Military Heroism finds wider historical meanings in the fates of our decorated heroes.
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9780143020561
Shattered Glory: The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front
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Author:
Matthew Wright
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The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 destroyed New Zealand's fantasies of war as a glorious schoolboy adventure on behalf of a beloved Empire. The Western Front campaign that followed in 1916-18 gave shape to the emotional impact. It was a horror world of death and mud that destroyed the souls of the young men who fought in it. Together, these two campaigns shaped the lives of a generation of New Zealanders and have given a particular meaning to modern memory of war.
In
Shattered Glory
, highly regarded historian Matthew Wright illuminates New Zealand's human experience during these two First World War campaigns, exploring the darker side of New Zealand's iconic symbols of national identity and explaining some of the realities behind the twenty-first century mythology.
First published August 2010.
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9780958235006
2nd New Zealand Divisional Cavalry Regiment in the Mediterranean
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Jeffrey Plowman
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9780473065348
4th New Zealand Armoured Brigade in Italy
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Jeffrey Plowman
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9781869507855
A Fair Sort of Battering: New Zealanders Remember the Italian Campaign (Re-Issue - New Format)
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Author:
Megan Hutching
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The New Zealand Division landed in Italy in October 1943 and entered the line at the Sangro River on 14 November. They fought up the east side of Italy, becoming bogged down at Orsogna for two months, from where they were withdrawn in January 1944. They then swapped coasts and moved across the Apennines to the west side of the country where they came to a screeching halt at Cassino. Three hard-fought battles took place here before the New Zealanders could move past and on to Rome and almost as far as Florence. The Division was then transferred across the country again and began the long hard slog over rivers and through river valleys up the east until finally reaching Trieste in May 1945. It was unpleasant fighting and a great contrast to the desert war. Here it was cold and wet and it snowed. But there were also compensations - many of the men got on well with the Italian people, who most greeted them with great enthusiasm.
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9780864733979
Angel of the Anzacs: the Life of Nola Luxford
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Author:
Carole Van Grondelle
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Nola Luxford's life spanned the twentieth century and circled the globe, taking her from turn-of-the-century Hawke's Bay, to Hollywood's golden Age, and the elite circles of New York society.
She became well-known in New Zealand for her radio broadcasts, but it was the Anzac club, which touched the lives of thousands of young New Zealand and Australian servicemen, that she considered was her greatest achievement.
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9780790008509
Anzac
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Author:
Cecil Malthus
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Anzac A Retrospect was first published in 1965, fifty years after the landing at Gallipoli. In that time many accounts, assessments and reassessments of this controversial campaign have been published, yet very few give the immediate impressions and daily experiences of the man in the ranks. The author of this book saw service as a private in the 1st Canterbury Battalion and apart from some inevitable bouts of sickness, went through the whole campaign, including a spell in the notorious Quinn’s Post at its most vulnerable. As one of the patrol of scouts formed in the battalion he was also in the forefront of other activities, including the New Zealand attack over the ‘Daisy Patch’ at Cape Helles. The main part of his story is based on diaries and letters home, while in retrospect he makes pertinent comments on some of the controversial features of the campaign. In particular, he is critical of the account of the failure of the Anzac ...
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9781740661423
ANZAC: An Illustrated History 1914-1918
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Author:
Richard Pelvin
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This beautifully illustrated book is a moving pictorial record of World War I as experienced by the Anzacs, the soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. Over 500 rarely seen photos, historic maps, letters and diaries from the Australian War Memorial archives, as well as detailed captions and illustrated timelines bring to life the Anzac story as experienced by the ordinary soldier. Additional perspectives are gained from official war historian Charles Bean, journalist Keith Murdoch, commanding officer at Gallipoli Lt, General Sir William Birdwood and Prime Minister William Hughes.
Anzac
conveys not only the horrors of war and the hardships experienced by the Anzacs, but also the dignity, bravery, valour and humanity they came to embody.
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9780908876105
ANZAC Elite
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Author:
LORD Cliff & TENNANT Julian
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160 pages in A4 portrait format
A superb all-colour reference book to all the badges and insignia worn by the elite troops of the two countries, past and present. Includes brief histories of the units with some photographs, in both colour and black and white.
In all there are over 700 colour illustrations.
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9781876372606
Anzacs at Gallipoli: Scarecrow Army
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Author:
Leon Davidson
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On 25 April 1915, thousands of Australians and New Zealanders landed at an unnamed cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula. They had come to fight the Turks. They thought the battle would be over in three days. Months later they were still in the trenches they’d dug at the landing. Anzac Cove became a graveyard where bodies lay above the ground and the living slept under it. They had gone looking for the adventure of a lifetime.
First published 2005.
WINNER NON-FICTION CATEGORY IN THE NEW ZEALAND POST BOOK AWARDS 2006
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9781869588090
ANZACs: Stories from New Zealanders at War
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Author:
Tony Williams
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ANZACS is the story of the reality of war as told by 24 New Zealanders who have experienced if. These are tales of human courage, resourcefulness and resilience - and sometimes humour - but also of broken bodies, crushed spirits, violence and death.
The men and women who share their experiences served as infantrymen, artillerymen, commandos, air force pilots and crew, marines and naval officers, nurses, medics and chaplains. The Second World War veterans served in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, while others fought in the later wars in Korea and Vietnam.
This book also includes stories of New Zealanders who fought with the Italian resistance and the British, Australian and American forces. Some describe, in disturbing detail, their experiences in prisoner of war camps in Europe and Japan. The account of a Jewish Holocaust survivor who has made her home in New Zealand makes particularly compelling ...
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9781869504595
Caesar the Anzac Dog (OP)
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Author:
Patricia Stroud (illus Bruce Potter)
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When the New Zealand Rifle Brigade marched down Queen Street to board their transport ship to Egypt and the Western Front in World War I, they were led by their official mascot, a bulldog called Caesar. Trained as a Red Cross dog, Caesar rescued wounded soldiers at the Battle of the Somme.
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9781921215292
Forgotten Anzacs : The Campaign in Greece 1941
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Author:
Peter Ewer
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Every school child in Australia and New Zealand is brought up on the legend of the Anzacs. This, though, is the largely unknown story of another Anzac force which fought not at Gallipoli, but in Greece a generation later. On 12 April 1941, General Thomas Blamey, commander of the Australian Imperial Force in the Mediterranean, issued an order of the day announcing the formation of a new Anzac Corps. Australian and New Zealand troops were at the time fighting side by side in Greece against an invading German army that had been triumphant everywhere. With the very existence of his force in the balance, Blamey invoked the spirit of Gallipoli to inspire his troops, suggesting: the reunion of the Australian and New Zealand Division gives all ranks the greatest uplift. The task ahead though difficult is not nearly so desperate as that which our fathers faced in April twenty-six years ago. We go to it together with stout hearts and certainty ...
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9781877427305
From the Uttermost Ends of the Earth : The New Zealand Division on the Western Front 1916 - 1918
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Author:
John H Gray
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The New Zealand Division earned a high reputation as an Allied strike formation on the Western Front in 1916-1918. It fought at First Somme, and the Battles of Messines, Broodseinde, and First Passchendaele. It responded effectively in plugging a gap in the British line at Second Somme during the sudden German advance in March 1918. It held its new line, and then was in the vanguard of the Advance to Victory through the Hindenburg Line, before its celebrated Relief of Le Quesnoy, at wars end. It pioneered the fielding by the New Zealand Army of an infantry division; another of which was also to earn renown in World War II.The book is in full colour throughout and covers the whole chronological course of the Division's operational progress, from May 1916 to November 1918. It is the only one to do so other than the voluminous Popular History based on Official Records by Colonel Hugh Stewart, published in 1921. Incorporated in the ...
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9781742030258
Gallipoli: Reckless Valour
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Author:
Nicolas Brasch
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They were young men full of practical jokes and hell-bent on having a good time. But when the Australian and New Zealand soldiers landed at Gallipoli on 25 April, 1915, they were bold and brave, loyal to their mates and daring in their fighting.
Find out how these young men wrote themselves into the pages of history with their reckless valour. Learn why Anzac Day is celebrated on 25 April. Also includes the story of Simpson and his donkey.
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9780007286515
I am Batman (I Can Read Level 2)
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When Batman sees the Bat-Signal up in the sky, it means danger is near! He'll need his Batsuit and Bat-Pod to help keep Gotham City safe from its newest enemy -- the Joker!
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