An Account of My Life: Aart Kool 1787-1862 by Aart Kool (Editor)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Napoleonic Wars
In 1812 Aart Kool was a young Dutch engineering officer in Napoleon's army on the march to Moscow. Of the 600,000 troops in that infamous campaign, only 15,000 made it home. Aart was one. Twenty-five years later he wrote a vivid and engrossing account of his involvement in this setback for the French e ...Show more
Bunty Preece Soldier of the 28 (Maori) Battalion by Tom O’Connor
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
This then is the story of Alfred (Bunty) Preece of the Chatham Islands, soldier, farmer, local body politician, kaumatua and tireless advocate for his people. His recollections of the Italian Campaign of World War Two and the effect of those two and a half years were but the beginning of a lifetime of d ...Show more
Freyberg: A Life's Journey by Matthew Wright
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
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
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