New Zealand’s Great War, edited by John Crawford and Ian McGibbon

Description

New Zealand’s Great War is a fascinating miscellany of informed comment on and insight into the event that did most to shape New Zealand as a nation.

Edited by John Crawford and Ian McGibbon, this collection of essays arose from the ‘Zealandia’s Great War’ conference, organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. The book contains 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, exploring various aspects of New Zealand’s involvement in World War One.

Subjects include:

• The Pioneer Māori Battalion
• Women who opposed the war
• The early years of the RSA
• Gallipoli
• The infantry on the Somme
• New Zealand’s involvement in the naval war
• Prostitution and the New Zealand soldier
• The Home Defence
• Religion in the First World War
• The Armistice.

Contributors include New Zealand’s own Christopher Pugsley, Glyn Harper, Terry Kinloch, Monty Soutar, Megan Hutching, Vincent Orange and Bronwyn Dalley, as well as Peter Dennis, Jeffrey Grey, Jennifer Keene, Jenny McLeod, Pierre Purseigle, Peter Stanley and Gary Sheffield from overseas.

Pages: 675
Published: 2007