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Mytho-history, Les Cleveland
A Near-Run Affair: New Zealanders in the battle for Crete, 1941 Matthew Wright Reed Books, $30.95, ISBN 0790007320 A Unique Sort of Battle: New Zealanders Remember Crete ed Megan Hutching HarperCollins in association with the History Group, Ministry for Culture…
Tagged with: December 2001, HarperCollins, Les Cleveland, Matthew Wright, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Reed Books
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
When Tu commands, Les Cleveland
Maori Battalion: A Poetic Sequence Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Wai-te-ata Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877159115 This sequence of 72 short narrative poems with nine photographs is a loose, anecdotal treatment of the Maori Battalion’s part in World War 2. It also…
Tagged with: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Issue 54, Les Cleveland, Wai-te-ata Press, Winter 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Victims of the times, Les Cleveland
Massacre at Passchendaele: The New Zealand Story Glyn Harper HarperCollins, $39.95, ISBN 1 86950 342 2 Dear Lizzie: A Kiwi Soldier Writes from the Battlefields of World War One ed Chrissie Ward HarperCollins, $34.95, ISBN 1 86950 340 6 Private…
Tagged with: Chrissie Ward, Glyn Harper, Greg Kerr, HarperCollins, Issue 44, John Crawford, Les Cleveland, Ngaio Press, Oxford University Press, Roger Smith
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
The sharp end, Les Cleveland
On the Way to an Ambush Bruce Connew Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0 86473 376 3 So far there have been about 150 wars this century. Some are big-budget affairs like the recent imbroglio in the Balkans, others are…
Tagged with: Bruce Connew, Issue 39, Les Cleveland, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
A Good Keen Camera, Paul Thompson
Les Cleveland, Six Decades. Message from the Exterior City Gallery Wellington / Victoria University Press $39.95 ISBN 0 86473355 0 It is instructive to look at this book as a “package” that raises the now hoary debate about whether photography…
Tagged with: City Gallery Wellington, Issue 36, Les Cleveland, Paul Thompson, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Putting it all behind them, Christopher Pugsley
Dark Laughter: War in Song and Popular Culture Les Cleveland Praeger, US$49.95 ISBN 0275947645 Silent Casualties: New Zealand’s Unspoken Legacy of the Second World War Alison Parr Tandem Press, $29.95 ISBN 0908884672 Whistle As You Go: The Story of the…
Tagged with: Alison Parr, Christopher Pugsley, Issue 22, Les Cleveland, Praeger, Random House, Tandem Press, Terry Vaughan
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
The ski lifts are free, Les Cleveland
You Are Too Old to Drive Dear: Elderspeak and Ageism in an Ageing Society Sik Hung Ng Victoria University Press, $8.95, ISBN 0 864732813 Beyond Good Intentions: Support Work with Older People Anne Opie Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University…
Tagged with: Anne Gluckman, Anne Opie, Auckland Institute of Technology Press, Gary Courtenay, GP Publications, Hodder Moa Beckett, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 20, Jacques Vannoort, K J Smith, Les Cleveland, Mary Tagg, Noel Whittaker, Roger Moses, Sik Hung Ng, Sue Waiter, Summer 1995, Tandem, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The culture of death – where are the songs? Les Cleveland
Deep Jay: Kiwis At War In Vietnam Rod Eder Tandem Press, $19.95 ISBN 0 908884 55 9 Ensor’s Endeavour Vincent Orange Grub Street, London (also available from PO Box 2319, Christchurch), $59.95, ISBN 1 898 697 043 North From Taranto:…
Tagged with: Christopher Pugsley, Grub Street, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 19, John Crawford, Les Cleveland, New Zealand Defence Force, Rod Eder, Spring 1995, Tandem Press, Vincent Orange
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
June 1992: Music and the arts, House Notes
The Great New Zealand Songbook Les Cleveland, Godwit, Auckland, 1991, $29.95 Les Cleveland’s friendly and informal approach illuminates this collection of 60 New Zealand songs from early ballads to goldrush classics and Ruru Karaitiana’s ‘Blue Smoke’. An excellent introduction is…
Tagged with: Godwit, Harrison Bray, Issue 5, John M Jennings, Les Cleveland, Mike Harding, Nota Bene Music, Philip Norman, Ross Harvey, School of Music, The Canterbury Series of Bibliographies, University of Canterbury, Winter 1992
Posted in Literature, Music, Non-fiction, Pacific, Plays, Review, Sociology
Posted in Literature, Music, Non-fiction, Pacific, Plays, Review, Sociology