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Memory and amnesia, Giovanni Tiso
To the Memory: New Zealand’s War Memorials Jock Phillips Potton and Burton, $60.00, ISBN 9780947503024 Think of it as a road guide to New Zealand of sorts, one that maps your route both spatially and chronologically: for almost every town…
Tagged with: Giovanni Tiso, Issue 116, Jock Phillips, Potton and Burton, Summer 2016
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Mud, blood and misconception, Damien Fenton
First Day of the Somme: The Complete Account of Britain’s Worst-ever Military Disaster Andrew Macdonald, HarperCollins, $40.00, ISBN 9781775540403 Experience of a Lifetime: People, Personalities and Leaders in the First World War John Crawford, David Littlewood and James Watson (eds)…
Tagged with: Andrew Macdonald, David Littlewood, Dr Damien Fenton, HarperCollins, Issue 115, James Watson, John Crawford, Massey University Press, Spring 2016
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
With the Second Division, Tony Simpson
A Bloody Road Home: World War Two and New Zealand’s Heroic Second Division Christopher Pugsley Penguin, $70.00 ISBN 9780143571896 It might seem strange that we have had to wait seven decades from the conclusion of WWII for a comprehensive history…
Tagged with: Christopher Pugsley, Issue 115, Penguin Books, Spring 2016, Tony Simpson
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Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Rescuing an heroic figure, Jane Westaway
Petals & Bullets: Dorothy Morris, New Zealand Nurse in the Spanish Civil War Mark Derby Potton and Burton, $40.00, ISBN 9781927213766 In the preface to Mark Derby’s new book, Spanish War historian Angela Jackson writes of the challenge in recounting…
Tagged with: Dorothy Morris, Issue 114, Jane Westaway, Mark Derby, Potton and Burton, Winter 2016
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Mingling the sacred and the profane, Martin Edmond
The Penguin Book of New Zealand War Writing Harry Ricketts and Gavin McLean (eds) Penguin Books, $65.00, ISBN 9780143573098 Oddly enough – or perhaps not – when this book arrived at my door I remembered one of the more arcane…
Tagged with: Gavin McLean, Harry Ricketts, Issue 112, Martin Edmond, Penguin Books, Summer 2015
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Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Voices from the past, Jock Phillips
Remembering Gallipoli: Interviews with New Zealand Gallipoli Veterans Christopher Pugsley and Charles Ferrall (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00 ISBN 9780864739919 Amid the flood of printed words that have marked the centenary of New Zealand’s Gallipoli experience, Remembering Gallipoli comes with,…
Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Christopher Pugsley, Issue 112, Jock Phillips, Summer 2015, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Captions and context, David Littlewood
The Anzacs: An Inside View of New Zealanders at Gallipoli Auckland War Memorial Museum Penguin, $45.00, ISBN 9780143572336 Brothers in Arms: Gordon and Robin Harper in the Great War Jock Phillips with Philip Harper and Susan Harper NZHistoryJock, $40.00, ISBN…
Tagged with: Auckland War Memorial Museum, Gordon Harper, Issue 111, Jock Phillips, NZHistoryJock, Penguin, Philip Harper, Robin Harper, Spring 2015, Susan Harper
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Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Cultural mobilisation, Philippa Mein Smith
Calls to Arms: New Zealand Society and Commitment to the Great War Steven Loveridge Victoria University Press, $40.00. ISBN 9780864739674. Impressed by the Blackadder account of WWI when he was a child, Steven Loveridge grew up to write a PhD…
Tagged with: Issue 111, Philippa Mein Smith, Spring 2015, Steven Loveridge, Victoria University Press
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