Books - "history"
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The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology
Ownership signature of NZ author & archaeologist Ian Smith, imperial octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxii + 839pp, NR FINE in NR FINE d/w
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2017
KEYWORDS: zooarchaeology archaeology zoology animals natural history
The Luftwaffe: A History
Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Sphere 1969
KEYWORDS: History military German Luftwaffe airforce
Dunkirk: The Necessary Myth
Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Coronet 1990
KEYWORDS: Military history war Dunkirk
Early Days in Dunedin
First edition, octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1938
KEYWORDS: History Dunedin New Zealand
So I Headed West (Ballarat to Broken Hill, to Kanowna, to Kalgoorlie)
Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: W. G. Manners & Co/Hesperian Press 1992
KEYWORDS: Australia history illustrated culture emigration settlement W G Manners autobiography memoir
The Lonely Leader: Monty 1944 - 1945
Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Pan 1995
KEYWORDS: Biography military history General Montgomery WW2
Gallipoli: The New Zealand Story
Quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1984
KEYWORDS: Military history Gallipoli New Zealand
A Good Place to Hide: How one French community saved thousands of lives in World War II
Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Allen and Unwin 2014
KEYWORDS: History WW2 France jews
1945: The World We Fought For
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Book Club Associates 1985
KEYWORDS: Military social history 1945
The Decision to Drop the Bomb
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Methuen 1967
KEYWORDS: Military political history United States bomb Hiroshima
Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Morrow 2000
KEYWORDS: Military history memoir Paul Tibbets Hiroshima Enola Gay
Last Line of Defence: New Zealanders Remember the War at Home
Square quarto softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2007
KEYWORDS: Military social history New Zealand post war
McDonnell Douglas: 1920 - 1970: 50 Years of service to the community the nation and the world
Quarto light card stapled wrapper (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: McDonnell Douglas (1970??)
KEYWORDS: History corporate McDonnell Douglas photographic compilation aircraft space
Narooma's Past: Steamers, Sawmills and Salmon
A4 journal softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Laurelle Pacey 2001
KEYWORDS: Social history Australia Narooma Gold
Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
First edition, super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 1993
KEYWORDS: first edition Erwin Rommel biography memoir military history
The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities: A Twentieth-Century History
Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: John Macrae/Henry Holt & Co 1998
KEYWORDS: lgbt gender sexuality gay literature culture history
Gold! Gold! Gold! A Dictionary of the Nineteenth-century Australian Gold Rushes
large octavo, illustrated light card covers, blue spine with white lettering, illus, xvi+190 pp, VG+ (slight rubbing & slight soiling to covers & page edges, slight fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: dictionary Australian colloquial slang gold rushes history language quotations
Adderley to Bradley: A History of the Southern Bays of Lyttelton Harbour
quarto, illustrated light card covers, illus spine with blue lettering, decorated eps, 312 pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to covers, slight creasing on hinge)
PUBLISHER: Friends of Diamond Harbour Library 2009
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Lyttelton Harbour history geography ferries bays community sport roads facilities buildings farming
A Companion to Social Archaeology
ownership of New Zealand archaeologist & author, Ian Smith, imperial octavo, black cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, chocolate-brown eps, xi+430pp, VG+ (Near FINE but for Ian Smith's name written in pen on prelim) in d/w VG+ (slight rubbing & bruising)
PUBLISHER: Blackwell 2004
KEYWORDS: social archaeology politics people society history culture identity knowledge
The Wind Commands: Sailors and Sailing Ships in the Pacific
inscribed & signed by author, with also signature of Peggy Morton, imperial octavo, blue textured cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, illus eps, xxvii+498pp, VG+ (slight bruising, particularly to spine extrems & corners; slight fading to board edges, slight tanning to page edges) in d/w VG- (slight rubbing, soiling & bruising, spine is faded from blue to white)
PUBLISHER: John McIndoe , and the University of British Columbia Press 1976
KEYWORDS: Pacific sailing sailors Drake Magellan journals scurvy navigation history wind jammers galleons navigation adventure indigenous craft European technical