A UNIQUE PUBLISHING HOUSE SPECIALISING IN
NEW ZEALAND MILITARY HISTORY
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LIMITED EDITION
THE STAFF, THE SERPANT AND THE SWORD The Staff , The Serpent and The Sword is a limited edition of 55 copies only, signed by retired Brigadiers Brian McMahon and Anne Campbell, which covers 100 years of The Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps history. Throughout this story, the reader will find excerpts from many original papers, diaries and accounts which provide colour and background to the development of the Corps. The book covers the early beginnings in 1908 up to its more recent service in Timor Leste, Solomon Islands and Afghanistan.
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Jungle Green shadowsThe New Zealand Government ordered the deployment of combat forces to Vietnam in 1965 to join Australia and other Allies engaged in that War. Victor 2 Rifle Company arrived in Vietnam on 12 November 1967 and left on 13 May 1968. Major Brian Worsnop was the commander, and the author, Lieutenant Tony Howell, was one of the Platoon Commanders. Jungle Green Shadows is a very important historical record of Victor 2 Company’s participation in New Zealand’s most unpopular war. What is fascinating is how Tony has managed to weave the thoughts and experiences of so many surviving Company soldiers into this factual account. As a result it reads more like an educational novel than a history book. |
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IN PLAIN VIEW In Plain View is uncommon history. The undeclared wars in Borneo and Vietnam of half a century ago provided very different experiences. This is the personal story of a young officer, and those with whom he worked and lived, who participated in both conflicts. It is a unique story in many respects, presenting back- ground, detail, and perspectives that are not commonly recorded elsewhere. |
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The Silent Division
It was appropriate that the centenary of the start of World War l should be marked by publishing, in one volume, two works of the greatest New Zealand front-line writer about that war, twice decorated and thrice wounded.
Ormond Edward Burton lived life at an uncompromising extreme, whether as a soldier – when, as recounted in this book, he more than once voluntarily went to considerable lengths to put himself in harm’s way, as he saw it in his unit’s interests - or later as a clergyman and Christian pacifist. |
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