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Behind Enemy Lines : Kiwi Freedom Fighters in WWII by Matthew Wright
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | 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: New Zealand
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
Freyberg: A Life's Journey by Matthew Wright
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | 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
Illustrated History of New Zealand (expanded 3rd edition) by Matthew Wright
$59.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
In this third, revised and expanded edition of Illustrated History, noted historian Matthew Wright brings New Zealand's turbulent and exciting past to life, tracing our journey from the arrival of Polynesians to discovery by Europe, exploring New Zealand's dramatic colonial past, the impacts of the worl ...Show more
Living On Shaky Ground - The science and story behind New Zealand’s earthquakes by Matthew Wright
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
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
$49.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | 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: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
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 Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front by Wright Matthew
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
In The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front, historian Matthew Wright goes to the heart of how the First World War affected the lives of ordinary New Zealanders. The book analyses what it was like for New Zealand soldiers at the two main battle fronts where they fought, and frames i ...Show more
New Zealand on the Move : 100 Kiwi Transport Icons by Matthew Wright
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
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
Quake : The Hawke's Bay Earthquake by Matthew Wright
$34.99 NZD
$44.99 (22% off)
Category: New Zealand
On 3 February 1931, Hawke's Bay was shattered by the largest earthquake ever recorded in New Zealand. It was a disaster of national proportions, damaging buildings from Gisborne to Wanganui, a catastrophe that officially killed 256 and seriously injured more than 400. Fresh pictures, diaries and eyewitn ...Show more
Shattered Glory: The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front by Matthew Wright
$45.00 NZD
$47.00 (4% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical
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 me ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars (The New Zealand Series) by Matthew Wright
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Series: The NZ Series
Why did the New Zealand Wars occur? Who fought them and how did they proceed? And where were these battles fought? In The New Zealand Wars, Matthew Wright answers these questions in probing text supported by fact boxes and illustrations that make navigating these protracted wars easy. Building on his 20 ...Show more