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Where the heart is, Les Cleveland
Home: Civilian New Zealanders Remember the Second World War Alison Parr Penguin, $50.00, ISBN 9780143203541 Paradoxically, New Zealand was at its best during WWII. Driven by the integrative imagery of the “War Effort”, most of us felt we were…
Tagged with: Alison Parr, Issue 94, Les Cleveland, Penguin, Winter 2011
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Slow learners, Les Cleveland
Behind Enemy Lines Enemy Lines: Kiwi Freedom Fighters in WWII Matthew Wright (ed) Random House, $39.99, ISBN 9781869790691 A doggerel satire circulating among New Zealand troops in the desert campaigns of 1941-2 complained that General Rommel’s Afrika Korps “chased…
Tagged with: Issue 92, Les Cleveland, Matthew Wright, Random House, Summer 2010
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Teacup warriors, Les Cleveland
Fernleaf Cairo: New Zealanders at Maadi Camp Alex Hedley (with Megan Hutching) HarperCollins, $36.39, ISBN 9781869507718 Grey Ghosts: New Zealand Vietnam Vets Talk About their War Deborah Challinor HarperCollins, $36.99, ISBN 9781869507718 Things Have Been Pretty Lively: The Great War…
Tagged with: Alex Hedley, Deborah Challinor, Doug King, Fraser Books, HarperCollins, Issue 87, Les Cleveland, Megan Hutching, Neil Frances, Patricia Stroud, Spring 2009, Wairarapa Archives
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
St Barbara might help, Les Cleveland
The Gunners: A History of New Zealand Artillery Alan Henderson, David Green and Peter Cooke Penguin Books, $65.00, ISBN 9780790011417 Specialists and artillery buffs will find much in this 528-page detailed treatment of weaponry, military organisation, administrative entanglements, the problems…
Tagged with: Alan Henderson, Autumn 2009, David Green, Issue 85, Les Cleveland, Penguin Books, Peter Cooke
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
In the jaws of Moloch, Les Cleveland
On My Way to the Somme Andrew Macdonald HarperCollins, $35.00, ISBN 11869505549 Galatas 1941 Lynn McConnell Reed, $39.99, ISBN 0790010496 In the Face of the Enemy Glyn Harper and Colin Richardson HarperCollins, $35.99, ISBN 1869505220 The Big Show Alison Parr…
Delicate flowers of the wasteland, Les Cleveland
Love in Time of War: Letter Writing in the Second World War Deborah Montgomerie Auckland University Press, $35.00, ISBN 1869403363 Freyberg’s War: The Man, the Legend, the Reality Matthew Wright Penguin Books, $35.00, ISBN 0143019856 Western Front: The New Zealand…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Deborah Montgomerie, HarperCollins, Ian McGibbon, Issue 71, Jonathan King, Les Cleveland, Matthew Wright, Megan Hutching, Michael Bowers, Pat White, Penguin Books, Random House, Red Books, Reed Books, Spring 2005
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Angels in the meat-grinder, Les Cleveland
While You’re Away: New Zealand Nurses at War 1899-1948 Anna Rogers Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1869403010 Nursing might be one of the few remaining professions not entirely driven by greed or self-interest. Anna Rogers assembles a chronicle of service…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Auckland University Press, Issue 63, Les Cleveland, Spring 2003
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
War tourism, Les Cleveland
One Flag, One Queen, One Tongue: New Zealand, the British and the South African War ed John Crawford and Ian McGibbon Auckland University Press, $39.99, ISBN 1869402936 Landscapes of Conflict: A Field Guide to the New Zealand Wars Nigel Prickett…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Ian McGibbon, Issue 60, John Crawford, Les Cleveland, Matthew Wright, Michael King, Nigel Prickett, Penguin Books, Random House, Reed Books, Summer 2002
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Words like ferns: the neglected Harold Gretton, Les Cleveland
Wartime is not usually thought of as a kind of literary
scholarship for authors, but a few talented New Zealand soldiers in World War 2 did manage to write stories and poems of some quality while serving in combat
situations.…
“One last regretful look”, Michael Jackson remembers Les Cleveland
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