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July 22nd, 2019

7/22/2019

New Zealand Army News: July 2019.
Shooting from the Shadow, New Zealand Special Air Service. The Wings Williams Story.

REVIEW:
Shooting from the Shadows,
By Captain Jeremy Seed.

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Three New BOOKS to be produced in 2020

3/11/2019

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Tom O'Connor, well-known author and semi retired journalist, has entered into an arrangement with us to reprint three of his historical novels on the life of Te Rauparaha. We plan to complete these throughout 2020 starting with the Tides of Kawhia. We will keep you informed of the publication dates once we are through the production cycle.
Following are some of the other books that Tom has written.
1) Death of a Cruise Ship, the story of the loss of the Mikhail Lermontov, in the Marlborough sounds in 1968.
2) Bunty Preece, soldier of 28 (Maori) Battalion.
3) The Ferret, Sergeant Eric Batchelor, DCM, and bar, mid.
4) The Irish Convict
https://www.tomoconnor.co.nz/books

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A WORD FROM BOB

Some people just love books. Not just reading them, but also twittering over them, feeling them, sniffing them… A lot of this kind seem to end up somewhere in the book business.
One such bloke is Bob Anderson (left). He’s a real book man, is Bob.
He started out as a lithographer who set up his own business in Christchurch doing typesetting, design, film and litho, the kind of business that proliferated in the years before digital came along and dealt many of them a death blow. Bob built working relationships with a few publishers, and even set up in Fiji, courtesy of that country’s government incentives, to service the Aussie market as well.
In 1991 he became a print consultant, but all the time Bob was getting deeper into books. All told he reckons he’s been involved in the production of the best part of 1000 books. Since 2000 he’s been a full-blown publisher — with a very special niche, that trades on another side to Bob Anderson. He is, as he loves to remind anyone sharing a drink with him, probably the only living person to have served in the New Zealand Army (2nd and 3rd Battalions) THREE TIMES.
It is a long and hilarious story of how that came about (perhaps Bob will tell us in a book sometime) but suffice to say Bob has a lot of friends in the New Zealand Defence establishment who value his commitment to producing quality books. They know him across the Tasman, too. It’s almost got to the stage where if it’s anything to do with ANZAC, Australian or New Zealand military events, it has to have Bob’s imprimatur on it.

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July 22nd, 2019

Three New BOOKS to be produced in 2020