Official History: ROYAL NEW ZEALAND AIR FORCE

Publication Date: May 2011

Author: Squadron Leader J. M. S. Ross

THIS IS A NEW BOOK:The Volume is the Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War. The book relates the development of service aviation in New Zealand from its beginnings in the early nineteentwenties and gives an account of the part played by the Royal New Zealand Air Force in training men for service with the Royal Air Force and operations against the Japanese in the Second World War. The final chapter outlines briefly the post War development of the Air Force up to the end of 1954.

Official History: CRETE

Publication Date: May 2011

Author: D.M.Davin

THIS IS A NEW BOOK: The volume begins with a short account of the variations in strategic circumstances affecting defence policy on Crete up to the end of April 1941. It then relates the hurried preparations to resist invasion with troops already on the Island and those evacuated from Greece.
The book includes an account of the defensive plan and dispositions finally adopted, and of the German strength. The plan of attack; the first major air-borne operation, precedes a detailed day-by-day account of the fighting in the various sectors, to the withdrawal and the evacuation of the island. The book ends with a short chapter of conclusions in which the defensive policy and its execution are discussed.

SINAI JOURNAL: 30 years of Kiwis serving with the Multinational Force and Observers

Publication Date: December 2012

Author: Sarah Chandler & Charlie O’Hara-Smith

2012 marked the thirtieth year of New Zealand's significant contribution to the successful, if not widely known, Multinational Force and Observer (MFO) peace keeping mission in the Sinai, set up in 1982 to monitor the Treaty of Peace between Egypt and Israel.