(Paperback)
By: Vincent Ashworth
ISBN: 9780473226138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Vincent Ashworth
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By: Peter Hoskins
ISBN: 9781915113726
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2022
Publisher: Helion & Company
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The story of Tony Hunter-Choat's service in the elite 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment of the Foreign Legion during the Algerian War. It draws on the unpublished memoir of this much decorated legionnaire: Commander of the Legion d'Honneur, Medaille Militaire and three awards of the Croix de la Valeur Militaire.
(Paperback)
By: Joan Woodward
ISBN: 9780908714094
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: Te Waihora Press
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(Hardback)
By: Bas von Benda-Beckmann
ISBN: 9781914414497
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 27th January 2023
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
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A heart-wrenching and detailed historical account following the last page of what might be the best known war story in all of Western history. Published in collaboration with the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam.
(Paperback)
By: Susanna Montgomerie Norris
ISBN: 9781877578755
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Otago University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Gerald McGhie
ISBN: 9781927212318
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Dunmore Publishing Limited
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Gerald McGhie's insightful account of 40 years of service as a NZ diplomat, including two postings in Moscow - during Brezhnev and Cold Ward years and later during the fall of Gorbachev, the rise of Yeltsin and collapse of the Soviet Union.Samoa and New Guinea are also discussed
(Paperback)
By: Brad Tattersfield
ISBN: 9780473501976
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Mary Egan Publishing
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Birch's story, from humble rural Waikato roots to political change-maker, is of an ordinary New Zealander who achieved extraordinary things. He tells all in "Bill Birch - Minister of Everything", written by former staffer and journalist Brad Tattersfield.
(Hardback)
By: M Weeks
ISBN: 9781781454152
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2020
Publisher: GMC Publications
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'Biographic: Beethoven' presents an instant impression of his life, work and legacy, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the composer behind the compositions.
(Hardback)
By: R Wiles
ISBN: 9781781453018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2017
Publisher: GMC Publications
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The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creative. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots.
(Hardback)
By: Richard Farrimond
ISBN: 9781804512364
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2023
Publisher: Helion & Company
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Birdwood was a very notable general at Gallipoli, commanding the Anzacs, and leading the successful final evacuations. He led the Australians continuously on the Western Front, laying the groundwork for their celebrated achievements in 1918. He had great diplomatic acumen and his later years were both militarily and imperially significant.
(Hardback)
By: Robert Orr-Ewing
ISBN: 9781911397632
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2023
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
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A book about the men and women who do not fit tidily into the sphere in which they find themselves; who dare to go against the norm, even if that imperils them physically, politically or intellectually.
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By: Cybele Locke
ISBN: 9781988587899
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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Comrade tells a riveting story of labour activism and social change. Historian Cybele Locke recovers the relationships between communism and working class trade unionism during World War Two and the following decades.
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By: Jenny Chamberlain
ISBN: 9780994136008
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Fraser Books
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Sue Bradford is half American and sixth generation Kiwi on her fathers side -- her European missionary genes date from 1820s Northland.
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By: Brent Coutts
ISBN: 9781988592381
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Otago University Press
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In Crossing the Lines, Brent Coutts brings to light the previously untold history of New Zealand homosexual soldiers in World War II, drawing on the experiences of ordinary men who lived through extraordinary times.
(Hardback)
By: Richard Mead
ISBN: 9781526765079
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Long overdue biography of a leading WW2 RAF Bomber Command Officer.
(Hardback)
By: Chris Taylor
ISBN: 9781399048859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th April 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Autobiographical readable/humorous account of ten years as an experimental/military test pilot at MOD Boscombe Down.
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By: Diane Grant
ISBN: 9780995123205
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Wairarapa Archive
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(Paperback)
By: Susan Cambridge
ISBN: 9780473410865
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Susan Cambridge & Tony Francis
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(Hardback)
By: Jennifer Haworth
ISBN: 9780473477202
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Translations Worldwide Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Matthew Wright
ISBN: 9780947506728
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Oratia Media
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*The first biography to focus fully on Freyberg as a man *Reveals the reality behind the myth of this complex individual *Fast-paced, tightly edited story with photo section Freyberg: A Life's Journey is the most accessible biography on 'Tiny' Freyberg yet, with numerous black and white photos.
(Hardback)
By: Lynda Rowland
ISBN: 9781399049948
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th October 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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The amazing life story of Sir Hardy Amies, SOE hero who led a fascinating double life as a couturier and an intelligence officer during the Second World War.
(Paperback)
By: Onesimus William Howe
ISBN: 9780473322069
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Langsford Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Peter Cox
ISBN: 9780473139490
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: Nationwide Books
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(Paperback)
By: Edward G. Seidensticker
ISBN: 9784805316863
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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