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Behind Enemy Lines : Kiwi Freedom Fighters in WWII by Matthew Wright
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'The cloak and dagger, secretive, mercurial, exceedingly hazardous life behind enemy lines . . . ' (Allan Yeoman) 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 pr ...Show more
Convicts: New Zealand's Hidden Past by Matthew Wright
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
New Zealand's Pakeha origin as a bolt-hole for convicts escaping Australia, a place where former convicts joined whaling and sealing gangs, and where sea captains thumbed their noses at the law, has been quietly forgotten. It has become a hidden part of our past, buried under the convenient fiction that ...Show more
Escape! New Zealander's World War 2 Stories by Matthew Wright
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
'As the vehicle gathered speed, I slung over the tailboard and ran . . . I saw the look of horror on the face of the guard. His frantic cries of "Halt! Halt!" rang in my ears as I lumbered down the street. Clear by a few hundred metres, I turned to wave a triumphant farewell.' - Peter Winter'. . whateve ...Show more
Fantastic Pasts: The Alternate Worlds of New Zealand History by Matthew Wright
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
What if Maori had never discovered New Zealand? What if the moa had survived into modern times? What if Sir Francis Drake had reached New Zealand? What if Homo erectus, so-called Java Man, had survived in remote Southland? What if the wording of the Treaty of Waitangi had been very different? What if Ne ...Show more
Fighting Past Each Other: The New Zealand Wars by Matthew Wright
$10.00 NZD
Category: History
The New Zealand wars began in 1845 and went on for nearly 30 years, a succession of conflicts that spanned the length of the North Island from the Bay of Islands to Wellington. What they meant has been debated ever since. To some they were land wars, to others, the Maori wars; and only lately have we be ...Show more
Freyberg: A Life's Journey by Matthew Wright
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In this fresh account of one of the 20th-century's great New Zealanders, Matthew Wright approaches Bernard Freyberg the man rather than the more widely known figure of a military leader. What took a humble immigrant child in Wellington to become a hero in two wars, friend to literary giants and politici ...Show more
Freyberg's War by Matthew Wright
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
The Man, the Legend and Reality Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg was head of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the Second World War. He was admired for his easy manner with his soldiers and subsequently became a national hero. He was also appointed governor-general of New Zealand ...Show more
Living On Shaky Ground - The science and story behind New Zealand’s earthquakes by Matthew Wright
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
What makes our isles so shaky? Why was Christchurch not the first of our big quakes? Any why won’t it be our last? This book investigates our turbulent tectonics. It tells us how earthquakes are measured and described, and how scientists predict future shakes. It details New Zealand’s lesser-known quake ...Show more
Living on Shaky Ground: The Science and Story Behind New Zealand's Earthquakes by Matthew Wright
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of New Zealand's turbulent tectonics, how earthquakes are measured and described, and how scientists are predicting future shakes across New Zealand. It features some of New Zealand's lesser-known quakes, such as the most powerful quake ever recorded in New Zealand, quakes that have ha ...Show more
Man of Secrets: The Private Life of Donald Mclean by Matthew Wright
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
Donald McLean. The hard-tempered Scot whose policies shaped New Zealand's colonial-age race relations, and gave rise to grievances that echo into the twenty-first century. The government official who used his position to get land for his personal ventures – and provoked war between Maori along the way. ...Show more
New Zealand on the Move : 100 Kiwi Transport Icons by Matthew Wright
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
As this country developed from 1840 on, transport was the key to opening up areas for farming, forestry and manufacturing. The trains, ships, cars, planes, motorbikes and trucks that we used on to get places and make us more efficient were so relied upon that they have become part of our DNA. In this li ...Show more
New Zealand's Military Heroism by Matthew Wright
$20.00 NZD
Category: History
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.