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Book The New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War I

Download or read book The New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War I written by Wayne Stack and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although comparatively small in number, the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War I (1914-1918) earned an elite reputation on the Western Front, and the New Zealanders' war effort was a defining moment in their national history and sense of identity. The statistics are astonishing: of the total population of New Zealand of 1 million, no fewer than 100,000 men enlisted - that is one in every five men in the country, and of those, 18,000 men were killed and 58,000 wounded. In other words, 15 per cent of the male population of New Zealand became casualties. The NZEF was first committed at Gallipoli in 1915, NZ cavalry regiments helped defend Egypt and fought in Palestine with Allenby's famous Desert Mounted Corps; on the Western Front the Kiwis were called the 'Silent Division' for their fieldcraft and their uncomplaining professionalism. This book is both a tribute and a history of the crucial contribution made by a small nation.

Book The Home Front

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Loveridge
  • Publisher : Chp
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9780995100183
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Home Front written by Steven Loveridge and published by Chp. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War is now typically regarded as senseless and futile, but most New Zealanders at the time considered it to be a war to preserve security and freedoms, to punish an aggressive enemy and to win a better world. Yet the war years proved a tumultuous time, and bitterness and animosities ran alongside idealism and sacrifice. Families were broken up as soldiers departed. Civil liberties were curtailed as the government wielded unprecedented powers. Divisive issues, economic volatility and a rising death toll all threatened resolve. Finally, in the last weeks of the war, a devastating influenza pandemic arrived in New Zealand and extracted a deadly toll. In The Home Front Steven Loveridge and James Watson offer a compelling account of how a small and developing country confronted the complex questions and brutal realities of a world war.

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 The War Effort of New Zealand     Edited by Lt  H T B  Drew

Download or read book The War Effort of New Zealand Edited by Lt H T B Drew written by H. T. B. DREW and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Zealand Prepares for War

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  • Author : William David McIntyre
  • Publisher : University of Canterbury, Canterbury University Press
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book New Zealand Prepares for War written by William David McIntyre and published by University of Canterbury, Canterbury University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a small country prepare for war? How well prepared was New Zealand in 1939? ... this is the first comprehensive study of defence policy in peace-time. It considers everything from the grand strategy of alliances to military organisation and 'nuts and bolts". It poses vital questions which all Governments have to face. What must we defend? What can be threatened? Who might have the motive and the capacity to pose a threat? What circumstances might permit an attack? How could an enemy be deterred? If deterrence fails, how can an attack be countered? What allies will assist? David McIntyre shows, from files in the National Archives and surviving private papers, that between 1919 and 1939 successive New Zealand governments identified the Dominion's security with that of the British Empire by planning to send land and air expeditionary forces to help the British and by building a small navy as a "Division of the Royal Navy". New Zealand even helped to pay for the Singapore Naval Base. Yet German rearmament in the 1930s and aggressive acts by Japan and Italy cast doubts on imperial strategy. At the same time New Zealand was increasingly pre-occupied with the strategic position of the Pacific Islands. Not only were the Dominion's forces called on in four "police actions" in the islands, but there was an extraordinary dispute with the USA over the possession of numerous small islands, and New Zealand accepted responsibility for the defence of some of Britain's island colonies. Included in this study are fascinating glimpses of some great personalities -- such as Carl Berendsen, who was a one man ministry of foreign affairs, General Sinclair Burgess, who modernised the army, and Group-Captain Cochrane, the first Chief of Air Staff. We follow the running debate over compulsory military training ; observe the role of the armed services during civil disturbances; and see Bill Jordan's dramatic contributions in the League of Nations in the late 1930s. A concluding survey of the war effort, 1939-45, considers whether New Zealand prepared for the "right" war."--Inside front cover.

Book The Front Line

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  • Author : Glyn Harper
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-08-12
  • ISBN : 9780995140738
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book The Front Line written by Glyn Harper and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW ZEALAND'S WAR THROUGH THE LENS OF THOSE WHO SERVEDA landmark book exploring New Zealand's second world war effort through over800 photographs, many never before published and many live-action shots takenby those at the front. The images span North Africa, Europe and the Pacific, aswell as action on the water and in the air - every battle and theatre in which NewZealanders fought. The text by one of New Zealand's leading military historiansplaces the images in context. Chapters on prisoners of war, the home front and NewZealand's role in Japan after the end of hostilities in the Pacific round out this richvisual account of a conflict that dominated all aspects of New Zealand life for sevenyears.

Book The War Effort of New Zealand   A Popular Hist  Ed  by H  T  B  Drew

Download or read book The War Effort of New Zealand A Popular Hist Ed by H T B Drew written by H. T. B. Drew and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Zealand Division  1916 1919

Download or read book The New Zealand Division 1916 1919 written by Hugh Stewart and published by Auckland : Whitcombe and Tomb. This book was released on 1921 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War

Download or read book Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War written by R. Scott Sheffield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

Book New Zealand s War Effort

Download or read book New Zealand s War Effort written by New Zealand. Director of Publicity and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book THE NEW ZEALANDERS IN SINAI AND PALESTINE  Illustrated Edition

Download or read book THE NEW ZEALANDERS IN SINAI AND PALESTINE Illustrated Edition written by Lt Col C. G. Powles and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over 60 illustrations and 10 maps. “The official account of the NZ Mounted Rifles Brigade (Auckland, Canterbury and Wellington Mounted Rifles), which fought right through the Sinai and Palestine campaigns, gaining a high reputation. ...The Mounted Rifles Brigade had been fighting on Gallipoli as infantry, part of the New Zealand and Australian Division, and on 26th December 1915 they arrived back in Alexandria to resume their mounted role; their strength was 62 officers and 1329 other ranks. When reorganization was complete the Brigade numbered 2421 officers and men and 2,884 horses, part of the Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division along with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigades. In March 1916 the Brigade took over part of the Suez Canal Defences but it was in August that the Sinai operations began with the Battle of Romani and the subsequent actions in all of which the Brigade took part. Advancing into Palestine they played a great part in that campaign earning high praise from Allenby. In the appendices there is a Brigade Diary showing the more important moves taken and actions fought during the two campaigns, and they make a most impressive list. As with the other volumes of this history of New Zealand’s part in the Great War the narrative is easy to read and follow, gives a clear picture of the terrain (a virtual travelogue in parts) and the conditions of desert fighting, supported by good maps and plenty of contemporary photos. There is no Roll of Honour nor list of Honours and Awards nor index. Apart from the diary the appendices contain a glossary of terms occurring with place names and the brigade order of battle with succession of commanding officers in all units.”—N&M Print edition.

Book War Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : New Zealand. Prime Minister's Department. Information Section
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1946
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 66 pages

Download or read book War Record written by New Zealand. Prime Minister's Department. Information Section and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The War Effort of New Zealand

Download or read book The War Effort of New Zealand written by Henry Thomas Bertie Drew and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: