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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143203841
Home : Civilian New Zealanders Remember the Second World War
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Alison Parr
Published by:
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
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While their loved ones left to serve overseas, most New Zealanders spent the Second World War at home. This book tells the stories of those who stayed behind. Based on frank, in-depth interviews,
Home
reveals the reality of civilian wartime life in New Zealand during the watershed years from 1939 to 1945. Women and men remember, with disarming honesty, the experiences that unfolded for them, including chronic uncertainty, the fear of enemy invasion, the deprivations that came with rationing, and the intensity of wartime romantic relationships. Some took a pacifist stand, against the patriotic tide; others hid their embarrassment when they were excluded from military service. Most lived with the ongoing anxiety of long-distance separation from loved ones. Many endured the inevitable grief of loss. Moving, funny, heartfelt and often surprising, these are memories of ordinary lives lived in extraordinary times.
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9781869621599
A New Zealand Christmas : Three Centuries of Kiwi Christmas Celebrations From the Alexander Turnbull Library
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Author:
Sarah Ell
Published by:
Godwit
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This book is a treasure trove of Christmas Kiwiana from down the years. Drawing on the Turnbull's extensive collection, the selection of utterly charming Christmas cards, Christmas Day dinner menus, photographs, recipes, advertisements and poster art show the various ways in which we've celebrated Christmas and our nation over time.
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9780143006695
Penguin History of New Zealand Illustrated
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Hardback
Author:
Michael King (picture research & captions David Filer)
Published by:
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
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The late Michael King's acclaimed Penguin History of New Zealand is the local publishing phenomenon of the early twentieth century. Total sales in paperback and hardback have recently reached a staggering 220,000. King's text has been hailed for its accessibility and for being positive and constructive in a time of uncertainty. This is an illustrated hardback edition in full colour in the same format as Gerard Hutchings' Natural World of New Zealand. To Michael King's wonderful text has been added nearly 300 illustrations researched by David Filer: photographs, early paintings, engravings, maps and ephemera.
First published 2003; this edition October 2007.
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9780143011231
A Short History of New Zealand, A (revised edition 2009)
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Gordon McLauchlan
Published by:
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
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This highly regarded book has been in print since 2004 and has proved popular with tourists, students and ordinary New Zealanders as a lively and reliable short history of New Zealand. It has proved a handy and succinct alternative to bigger books such as Michael King's The Penguin History of New Zealand. The timeline at the end of the book has proved particularly popular. Gordon McLauchlan has been assiduously reading New Zealand history, biography and fiction for more than fifty years. He knows New Zealand as intimately and affectionately as anyone alive and has set out in this updated edition of A Short History of New Zealand to provide for the general reader an historical narrative that is personal and colourful, and stamped with the authority of a lifetime of deep interest. This revised edition includes events since the turn of the twenty-first century, including the results of the 2008 General Election.
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9781869790691
Behind Enemy Lines : Kiwi Freedom Fighters in WWII
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Author:
Matthew Wright
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
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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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ISBN / ISSN:
9780670074044
Beyond the Battlefield : New Zealand and Its Allies 1939-1945
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Hardback
Author:
Gerald Hensley
Published by:
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
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Finalist in the General Non-Fiction category NZ Post Book Awards 2010..
Beyond the Battlefield
by Gerald Hensley is the dramatic unknown story of New Zealand's involvement in World War II told for the first time here in an accessible, popular and enjoyable read. Savage, Nash, Fraser, Freyberg, Churchill, Roosevelt, Menzies, all great names from New Zealand and world history during the Second World War and all involved in the story of New Zealand's response to the global conflict and therefore the destiny of our nation.
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9780143204084
Bible and Treaty : Missionaries Among the Maori - a New Perspective
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Author:
Keith Newman
Published by:
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
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Bible & Treaty: Missionaries among the Maori is a complex and colourful adventure of faith, bravery, perseverance and betrayal that seeks to recover lost connections in the story of modern New Zealand. It brings a fresh perspective to the missionary story, from the lead-up to Samuel Marsden's first sermon on New Zealand soil, and the intervening struggle for survival and understanding, to the dramatic events that unfolded around the Treaty of Waitangi and the disillusionment that led to the Land Wars in the 1860s. While some missionaries clearly failed to live up to their high calling, the majority committed their lives to Maori and were instrumental in spreading Christianity, brokering peace between warring tribes, and promoting literacy - publishing, for instance, the first indigenous-language Bible in the Southern Hemisphere. This highly readable account, from the author of Ratana Revisited: An Unfinished Legacy (2006) and Ratana: ...
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9781869419257
Diggers, Hatters, Whores : The New Zealand Gold Rushes
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Author:
Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
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This is a first - a thorough and carefully researched history of the gold rushes in New Zealand - and it establishes a benchmark for future work on the history of the gold rushes. It's based on sound scholarship and aimed at the wide and growing general readership of those keen to know more about, and to weigh up, the history of New Zealand. The scope is the social history of the whole of the goldfields of the whole of colonial New Zealand from the 1850s to the 1870s. The early chapters of the main body will survey rushes chronologically. The later chapters will look at rushes thematically. Beautifully illustrated with sketches and watercolours of the times, this is both a wonderful read and a beautiful gift book.
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9781869790233
Explorers, Whalers, and Tattooed Sailors: Adventurous Tales from Early New Zealand
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Author:
Gordon & Sarah Ell (eds)
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
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This collection of first-hand accounts, drawn from early writings and out-of-print books, lets the first Europeans to visit this country tell their own stories of exploration, risk and adventure. Abel Tasman and Joseph Banks write of their first encounters with the people of this new land, followed by missionaries, traders, whalers and sealers, regency bucks, gentlemen scientists and entrepreneurs keen to explore its possibilities. Told in their own words, these stories bring to life a young country yet to come under British rule. This collection, first published in 1992 by The Bush Press, brings back into print many hard to find and otherwise unpublished stories, packaged in an attractive gift edition with a modern look.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781921215292
Forgotten Anzacs : The Campaign in Greece 1941
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NZ$ 70.60 each
Hardback
Author:
Peter Ewer
Published by:
scribe publications
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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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9781869790264
Howard Kippenberger Dauntless Spirit
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Paperback
Author:
Denis McLean
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
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Sir Howard Kippenberger is widely acknowledged as the ideal of a New Zealand citizen-soldier and our foremost soldier-scholar; a country lawyer and provincial intellectual who became a national figure as New Zealanders made the transition from colonials to a forthright nationhood. As a military leader, editor and author he was one of the prime movers in that process. His democratic style of leadership reflected the ethos of a new nation - active, competent and engaged in the world in its own right, no longer a dependency of Britain A second-generation New Zealander, born in 1897, his military career was probably unique in that he was a 19 year old private soldier in one war and emerged in the next as the commander of choice of what was in effect a national army - the 2nd NZ Division.
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9781877242168
Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi
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NZ$ 39.99 each
Paperback
Author:
Claudia Orange
Published by:
Bridget Williams Books
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1
Few subjects in recent years have created as much debate as the Treaty of Waitangi. Its history is a fascinating one, that embraces not only events of 1840 but also forces leading to the making of a treaty and the impacts, protests, and negotiations that followed for the next century and a half.
Claudia Orange offers here a straightforward account of a complex narrative. A wide range of illustrations brings the history to life: the different kinds of people who negotiated and signed the Treaty are vividly presented, the many periods of our past are portrayed; the context of this important document comes to life throughout the book.Perhaps the most significant feature of this book is the remarkable summary of the events of the 1980s and 1990s. In these years, the Waitangi Tribunal and iwi undertook massive research, to establish the validity of land claims; major settlements were made, and more claims are close to settlement.
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9780143020882
In Search of Ancient New Zealand
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NZ$ 50.00 each
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Author:
Hamish Campbell & Gerard Hutching
Published by:
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
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1
Is the tuatara really a missing link? To what? Who or what were the first 'New Zealanders'? How extensive were New Zealand dinosaurs? Could there have once been New Zealand mammals that haven't yet been discovered? When was New Zealand completely under water, and how do we know? What is our latest information about how New Zealand evolved? What do the newest fossil discoveries show us? In this wonderful book palaeontologist Hamish Campbell and natural history writer Gerard Hutching present an exciting new account of New Zealand's evolution aimed at the general reader. For the first time the story of the 8th continent â Zealandia â is revealed. From 3-billion-year-old grains of sand found in present-day rocks, through the momentous breakaway from Gondwanaland to the drowning and uplift of New Zealand giving rise to today's landscapes, this new book traces our absorbing geological story. Hamish Campbell's new thesis will ...
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9781877257711
Kiwi Companeros : New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author:
Mark Derby (ed)
Published by:
Canterbury University Press
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In the first-ever account of New Zealand's role in Spain's civil war of 1936-39, Mark Derby presents the personal stories of some extraordinary individuals who became involved. For example:
* A fighter pilot from Wellington who landed his plane with a shattered shoulder, then left for Hollywood to make movies with Errol Flynn
* A tough young wharfie from Napier who buried 80 of his fellow fighters in a single grave, and later became a union leader and thorn in the side of PM Rob Muldoon
Derby records also the actions of New Zealanders who worked for the Spanish cause at home by raising funds, lobbying politicians, writing poems and spreading propaganda.
Kiwi Companeros includes contributions from some of New Zealand's leading writers and historians. It draws on personal letters, recently released military documents and previously unpublished photographs to tell an all-but-forgotten story.
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9781921497025
Love Me Tender : The Stories Behind the World's Favourite Songs
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Max Cryer
Published by:
Exisle Publishing (Australia)
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Love Me Tender tells the remarkable stories behind 40 popular and traditional songs. Some evolved from folksongs, some are from musical theatre, while others hit the mark because a particular recording appeared at just the right time.
First published September 2008.
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