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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
Room at the top, David Grant
White-collar Radical: Dan Long and the Rise of White-collar Unions Mark Derby Craig Potton, $40.00, ISBN 9781877517174 Dan Long was an esteemed public servant and political and union activist from the late 1950s until his premature death in 1976, aged…
Tagged with: Craig Potton, Dan Long, David Grant, Issue 104, Mark Derby, Summer 2013
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
No eureka moment, Mark Derby
The Making of New Zealanders Ron Palenski Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869407261 In these febrile times a passing mention of New Zealand in US media can provoke a front-page response from our own. So it’s instructive to discover that…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 102, Mark Derby, Ron Palenski, Winter 2013
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Cons and rebels, Paul Morris
The Prophet and the Policeman Mark Derby Craig Potton, $39.99, ISBN 9781877517112 The English word “prophet” can mislead us, even if its Maori version emphasises the biblical legacy of seers and seekers of justice who spoke in the name of…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 91, Mark Derby, Paul Morris, Spring 2010
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Maori territory, Mark Derby
Nga Tama Toa: The Price of Citizenship: C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945 Monty Soutar David Bateman, $69.99, ISBN 9781869535933 The East Coast leader Apirana Ngata, for all his political and rhetorical gifts and his unquestioned public-spiritedness, could evidently be…
Tagged with: David Bateman, Issue 88, Mark Derby, Monty Soutar, Summer 2009
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Something out of Dante’s Inferno, David Grant
Kiwi Compañeros: New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War Mark Derby (ed) Canterbury University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877257711 For the great bulk of New Zealanders between 1936 and 1939 the Spanish Civil War was like any other civil war; it…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, David Grant, Issue 88, Mark Derby, Summer 2009
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