The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War

This fifty volume series covers all areas of New Zealand’s involvement in the Second World War, from detailed accounts of particular battalions, to the political and economic background and consequences, to full accounts of particular episodes and campaigns. This series was first published as part of the Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War, produced under the auspices of the War History Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs.

• ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand by Ian Callum McGibbon

Unit Histories

• 18 Battalion and Armoured Regiment by William Denham Dawson
• 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment by D. W. Sinclair
• 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery by W. E. Murphy
• 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment by William A. Glue and David James Chirnside Pringle
• 21 Battalion by Joseph F. Cody
• 22 Battalion by Jim H. Henderson
• 23 Battalion by Lieutenant Colonel Angus Ross
• 24 Battalion by Randal Mathews Burdon
• 25 Battalion by Edward Puttick
• 26 Battalion by Frazer D. Norton
• 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion by Robin Langford Kay
• 28 (Maori) Battalion by Joseph F. Cody
• 4th and 6th Reserve Mechanical Transport Companies by Jim H. Henderson
• Divisional Cavalry by R. J. M. Loughnan
• Divisional Signals by Major C. Allan Borman
• Medical Units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy by J. B. McKinney
• Supply Company by P. W. Bates
• New Zealand Engineers, Middle East by Joseph F. Cody

Campaign Histories

• Alam Halfa and Alamein by Ronald Walker
• Bardia to Enfidaville by Major General William George Stevens
• Battle for Egypt by Lieutenant Colonel J. L. Scoullar
• Chaplains by Sydney David Waters, John Macaulay Sutherland Ross, Reverend Michael L. Underhill and N. E. Winhall
• Crete by Daniel Marcus Davin
• Italy Volume I: The Sangro to Cassino by Neville Crompton Phillips
• Italy Volume II : From Cassino to Trieste by Robin Langford Kay
• The Pacific by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Arthur Gillespie
• To Greece by W. G. McClymont
• The Relief of Tobruk by W. E. Murphy

Air Force and Navy

• New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. I) by Wing Commander H. L. Thompson
• New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. II) by Wing Commander H. L. Thompson
• New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Volume III) by Wing Commander H. L. Thompson
• Royal New Zealand Air Force by Squadron Leader John Macaulay Sutherland Ross
• The Royal New Zealand Navy by Sydney David Waters

Medical Service

• Medical Services in New Zealand and The Pacific by Dr Thomas Duncan MacGregor Stout
• The New Zealand Dental Services by Major T. V. Anson
• War Surgery and Medicine by Dr Thomas Duncan MacGregor Stout
• New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy by Dr Thomas Duncan MacGregor Stout

Misc

• Documents Relating to New Zealand’s Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume I
• Documents Relating to New Zealand’s Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume II
• Documents Relating to New Zealand’s Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume III
• Episodes & Studies Volume 1
• Episodes & Studies Volume 2
• The Home Front Volume I by Nancy Margaret Taylor
• The Home Front Volume II by Nancy Margaret Taylor
• Journey Towards Christmas by Stephen Peter Llewellyn
• Petrol Company by Arthur Leon Nelson Kidson
• Political and External Affairs by Frederick Lloyd Whitfeld Wood
• Prisoners of War by Captain Walter Wynne Mason
• Problems of 2 NZEF by Major General William George Stevens
• War Economy by J. V. T. Baker