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Hitting the mark, Matthew Wright
Desert War: The Battle of Sidi Rezegh Peter Cox Exisle, $35.00, ISBN 9781921966705 Mention Sidi Rezegh to most New Zealanders today and there is a good chance they will look at you strangely. A few, probably, will nod and perhaps…
Tagged with: Exisle, Issue 111, Matthew Wright, Peter Cox, Spring 2015
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Moving historiographical boundaries, Paul Moon
Man of Secrets: The Private Life of Donald McLean Matthew Wright Penguin, $40.00, ISBN 9780143572213 At the Margin of Empire: John Webster and Hokianga, 1841–1900 Jennifer Ashton Auckland University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781869408251 Those of us interested in reading about…
Tagged with: Donald McLean, Issue 110, Jennifer Ashton Auckland University Press, John Webster, Matthew Wright, Paul Moon, Penguin, Winter 2015
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
A rowdy lot, Julia Millen
Convicts: New Zealand’s Hidden Criminal Past Matthew Wright Penguin, $40.00, ISBN 9780143567646 We New Zealanders have always been complacent, even smug, about our nation’s origins. Unlike our nearest, much bigger, neighbour, New Zealand was never a penal colony, having been…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Issue 101, Julia Millen, Matthew Wright, Penguin
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
When worlds collide, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
Guns and Utu: A Short History of the Musket Wars Matthew Wright Penguin Books, $42.00, ISBN 9780143565659 From the time the first accounts of New Zealand’s native inhabitants began to reach Europe, Maori pugnacity and military prowess have featured high…
Tagged with: Issue 98, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Matthew Wright, Penguin Books, Winter 2012
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Myth and memory, Edmund Bohan
Shattered Glory: The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front Matthew Wright Penguin Books, $45.00, ISBN 9780143020561 The Great Wrong War: New Zealand Society in WWI Stevan Eldred-Grigg Random House, $55.00, ISBN 9781869792633 In 2007 the…
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Edmund Bohan, Issue 93, Matthew Wright, Penguin Books, Random House, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
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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
Drawing-room stories, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Old South: Life and Times in the Nineteenth-century Mainland Matthew Wright Penguin Books, $50.00, ISBN 9780143006510 Old South is a work that should be a welcome newcomer to the growing list of leading titles in New Zealand history. The book…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Issue 89, Matthew Wright, Penguin Books, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Wrighting it, Chris Hilliard
Two Peoples, One Land: The New Zealand Wars Matthew Wright Reed, $39.99, ISBN 079001064X Military fortifications, like oceanic navigation, the archaeology of New Zealand, and the commercial and maritime policies of the early modern Spanish and Portuguese empires, are a…
Tagged with: Chris Hilliard, Issue 80, Matthew Wright, Reed, Summer 2007
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
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
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