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Book The Great War for New Zealand

Download or read book The Great War for New Zealand written by Vincent O'Malley and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning nearly two centuries from first contact through to settlement and apology, ​this major work focuses on the human impact of the war in the Waikato, its origins and aftermath.

Book Kia Kaha

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Crawford
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Kia Kaha written by John Crawford and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays is the most important history of New Zealand's involvement in the Second World War to appear in many years. It demonstrates the key role the nation played in the Allied cause, and topics include strategy, command in war, the operations of New Zealand Armed Forces, the home front, the scientific war, and the founding of the United Nations. The book provides new insight on the longterm impact of the war effort on New Zealand and on the difficulties small nations face when they try to get their concerns heard by world powers.

Book The War Effort of New Zealand

Download or read book The War Effort of New Zealand written by H. T. B. Drew and published by Auckland : Whitcombe and Tombs. This book was released on 1923 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Zealand s Great War

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  • Author : Ian McGibbon
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-03-25
  • ISBN : 9781741361940
  • Pages : 1343 pages

Download or read book New Zealand s Great War written by Ian McGibbon and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 1343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from around the world, various aspects of New Zealand's involvement in WWI are discussed. Subjects include the Pioneer Maori Battalion, women who opposed the war, Gallipoli, the infantry on the Somme, involvement in the naval war, Home Defence, religion, and the Armistice.

Book New Zealand and the First World War

Download or read book New Zealand and the First World War written by Damien Fenton and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The fighting has been and is very stern and hard here, but New Zealand's lads and men have proven themselves the equal of the best soldiers of the world.' - Colonel William Malone, commander of the Wellington Battalion, Quinn's Post, Gallipoli, 15 July 1915 The first of its kind for New Zealand - a lavish, landmark production - New Zealand and the First World War dynamically illustrates 50 key episodes of our wartime life. Featuring over 500 images, many previously unpublished, the book comes with a host of memorabilia: fold-out maps posters booklets letters postcards The complete story of New Zealand's war is brought to life in dramatic detail - our front-line experiences overseas as well as those on the home front, from the outbreak in 1914 to demobilisation in 1919. This terrible conflict was not restricted to faraway battlefields like Gallipoli and Passchendaele - it had an unparalleled impact on New Zealand society, touching nearly every family, every street and every community. Until now, no single history has explored New Zealand's role in the First World War with such breadth and colour. A defining history for a new generation. 'This is the trailblazing history for the war's centenary. It is a brilliant achievement and one every family should have in its home . . . It answers the obvious and not so obvious questions and will delight every age. It is a triumph.' --Christopher Pugsley, New Zealand Listener

Book Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War  1939 45

Download or read book Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939 45 written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 28  Maori  Battalion

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  • Author : Joseph Frederick Cody
  • Publisher : John Douglas Pub.
  • Release : 1956
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 604 pages

Download or read book 28 Maori Battalion written by Joseph Frederick Cody and published by John Douglas Pub.. This book was released on 1956 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Douglas Publishing is delighted to be able to produce this work with kind permission from Manatu Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage and the 28 Maori Battalion Association. This is the official history of one of the greatest fighting infantry units of World War II, the 28(Maori) Battalion. We have done everything possible to ensure the book is as close to the original, printed in 1956. As Lieutenant-General Bernard Freyberg wrote in the Foreword to the book: "In this history you will read the whole story - how they went overseas from New Zealand in 1940, with the Second Echelon to England, to take part in 'The Battle of Britain'. When the threat of invasion diminished they re-embarked for the Middle East, and arrived in time to take part in the disastrous campaigns in Greece and Crete. Later they fought in the 1941 Libyan Campaign and in the battles in 1942 in defence of Egypt. Later, when the tide changed, they took an active part in the victorious Western Desert Campaign, under Generals Alexander and Montgomery. They finished the war in Italy on the 2nd May 1945. "In all these many campaigns this Battalion took a great part, often a decisive part, in the fighting, as in the counter-attacks at Maleme and 42nd Street in the Cretan Campaign, or again in the Battle of Tebaga Gap, where gallant and young Ngarimu gained his posthumous Victoria Cross, or in the capture of Takrouna. But as glorious as these battles were, and as gallant and brave as was the Maori part, it is not only of their bravery but what fine fighting men they were. "To know and appreciate their great qualities you must understand their background and their tribal traditions. Maori are a fighting race, and according to their traditions and in keeping with the laws of New Zealand, they did not come under the National Service Act, which called up men when they reached the military age. The Maori was always a volunteer. For them it was an honour to serve.

Book Official History of the New Zealand Engineers During the Great War 1914 1919

Download or read book Official History of the New Zealand Engineers During the Great War 1914 1919 written by Maj N. Annabell Ed Maj N. Annabell and published by . This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Zealand s Great War

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010-06-29
  • ISBN : 9781741361100
  • Pages : 1156 pages

Download or read book New Zealand s Great War written by and published by . This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealanders have long remembered the First World War as their 'Great War'. Described as 'the most traumatic event in New Zealand's history', this war was responsible for more New Zealand deaths, both in relative and absolute terms, than any other conflict. In particular, the Gallipoli campaign appears to be indelibly etched in the nation's collective memory as a bloody touchstone for the forging of a distinct New Zealand identity. Drawing on presentations at a 2003 conference ('Zealandia's Great War'), this collection explores an impressive range of issues associated with this war experience. The 32 chapters are grouped within four broad categories: wider political, social and international perspectives; operational and combat experiences; social dimensions of the war effort; and the home front.

Book Fighting for Empire

Download or read book Fighting for Empire written by Christopher Pugsley and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred thousand New Zealanders sailed to war between 1914 and 1918, and at the end of four years of conflict the country had suffered 60,000 casualties, including 18,000 dead. Dr Chris Pugsley's account of the First World War (first published as a section in Scars on the Heart: 200 Years of NZ at War, Bateman, 1996), is a tale of learning about war the hard way, by bitter and costly experience, drawing on photographs, letters and diaries to examine the impact of war through the eyes of those involved. This lively mix of text, photographs and soldiers' own accounts covers all aspects of the war: from NZ's seizing German Samoa five days after war was declared, ANZAC Cove and Gallipoli, patriotism at home, Mounted Rifles in Sinai and Palestine, the role of our nurses, the Western Front, and 'Sea Dogs and Flying Aces' - how our sailors and airmen fought the war.

Book The New Zealand Division  1916 1919

Download or read book The New Zealand Division 1916 1919 written by H. Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an official history, the second volume of four constituting the Official History Of New Zealand s Effort In The Great War, the other three cover Gallipoli, Sinai and Palestine, and the Home Front. As may be expected this is a remarkably comprehensive account of one of the finest divisions of the BEF of which Earl Haig wrote: No Division in France built up for itself a finer reputation, whether for the gallantry of its conduct in battle or for the excellence of its behaviour out of the line. Its record does honour to the land from which it came and to the Empire for which it fought. A German assessment of the division was seen in an Intelligence document captured at Hebuterne in July 1918:- A particularly good assault Division. Its characteristics are a very strongly developed individual self-confidence or enterprise, characteristic of the colonial British, and a specially pronounced hatred of the Germans. In his Copse 125 (Rossignol Wood) Ernst Junger describes the bitter fighting with the New Zealanders (Otago Regiment) in July 1918. The NZ Division of this history was formed in Egypt in March 1916 with the transference of the Australian units of the old composite division, which had fought at Gallipoli, to Australian formations and the raising of fresh NZ units to take their place thus creating a purely New Zealand division. The infantry consisted of two battalions each of the Auckland, Canterbury, Otago and Wellington Regiments and four battalions of the NZ Rifle Brigade, all the divisional troops -artillery, engineers, medical etc were NZ units. The GOC was Major-General Sir A.H.Russell, promoted from command of a brigade of the composite NZ and Australian Division; he was to be the only commander of the division. The NZ Division arrived in France in April 1916 and it remained on the Western front throughout the war. In early 1917 a fourth infantry brigade was formed in England from the surplus reinforcements sent monthly from New Zealand and it joined the division as the 4th NZ Brigade in May, just before the Messines offensive. It was disbanded in February 1918. The division fought on the Somme, at Messines, at Third Ypres as part of II Anzac Corps; when the Germans struck in March 1918 the division was transferred to IV Corps (Harper) in Byng s Third Army where it stayed to the end of the war.

Book The New Zealand People at War

Download or read book The New Zealand People at War written by Frederick Lloyd Whitfeld Wood and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Zealand Medical Service in the Great War  1914 1918

Download or read book The New Zealand Medical Service in the Great War 1914 1918 written by Anderson Robert Dillon Carbery and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Maoris in the Great War

Download or read book The Maoris in the Great War written by James Cowan and published by . This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maori baptism into modern warfare was the landing at Anzac Cove and the battle on Sari Bair. Following the evacuation, the survivors were sent to the Western Front where they took part in most of the major pushes through to the end of the war. James Cowan had an affinity for the Maori and wrote warmly of their achievements as warriors.