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Heroines needed, Dale Williams

Posted on September 1, 2010 by NZ Books
Leading the Way: How New Zealand Women Won the Vote Megan Hutching HarperCollins, $39.99, ISBN 9781869507923 “Tis the glory of New Zealand that her sons were first to see/That there never was a free land where the women were not…
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Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review

Teacup warriors, Les Cleveland

Posted on September 1, 2009 by NZ Books
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…
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Posted in Autobiography, Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review, War

Delicate flowers of the wasteland, Les Cleveland

Posted on September 1, 2005 by NZ Books
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…
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Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War

Speaking for themselves, John Holt

Posted on June 1, 2005 by NZ Books
Remembering: Writing Oral History ed Anna Green and Megan Hutching Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 1869403177 The first oral history project I undertook at university very nearly didn’t make it past the first hurdle. The project was to create and…
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Over there, Tony Simpson

Posted on March 1, 2004 by NZ Books
New Zealand and the Second World War  Ian McGibbon Hodder Moa Beckett, $40.00, ISBN 1869589548 A Fair Sort of Battering: New Zealanders remember the Italian Campaign ed Megan Hutching HarperCollins, $40.00, ISBN 1869505050 The Desert Railway  Brendan Judd Penguin, $29.95,…
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Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War

Their side of the story, Megan Hutching

Posted on September 1, 2003 by NZ Books
Fighting with the enemy: New Zealand POWs and the Italian Resistance  Susan Jacobs Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018620 On 10 July 1943 Allied forces attacked Italy, landing in Sicily. Two weeks later the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was overthrown in an…
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Just like home, but warmer, Roger Hall

Posted on October 27, 1999 by NZ Books
Long Journey for Sevenpence. Assisted Immigration to New Zealand from the United Kingdom, 1947-1975 Megan Hutching Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0 86473 360 7 In 1960, after having spent two years in New Zealand, I went to work in…
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The art of recording voices, David Clarke

Posted on September 1, 1993 by NZ Books
Talking History: A Short Guide to Oral History Megan Hutching, Bridget Williams Books, $17.95 Talking History provides a valuable short reference book for those contemplating venturing into the fascinating art of oral history recording, and those who have already done…
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