Paul Watkins

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Willie's War
Paul Watkins
Nonfiction
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The remarkable true story of a New Zealand soldier who fought through the Somme, Messines and Passchendaele. Combining family history with extensive battlefield research, Willie’s War brings one ordinary Kiwi’s extraordinary First World War journey vividly to life.

When the War Came Here
Paul Watkins
Historical Fiction, Young Adult
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December 1942. For thirteen-year-old Gloria Walters, the war is a boring background noise – until Japanese commandos land on her local Coromandel beach. Kidnapped and thrust into a terrifying struggle for survival, Gloria must find the resourceful hero within to save her brother, her friend, and her small coastal New Zealand town