Volume 14 | Number 2 | Issue 63 | June 2004 Jock Phillips: Michael King – The historian who opened our eyes (essay) Fleur Adcock: “Historian dies in fiery crash” (poem) Editorial Megan Hutching: Susan Jacobs, Fighting with the…
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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 by…
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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
Poem – Fleur Adcock
The dark night of the decent bloke, Peter Wells
The Scornful Moon Maurice Gee Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018752 Anyone who has heard Maurice Gee read can summon up his tone of voice: discerning, patient and artful. He is a shrewd observer of the human condition with, at times, an…
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Tagged with: Issue 63, Maurice Gee, Penguin, Peter Wells, Spring 2003
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Their side of the story, Megan Hutching
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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Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Editorial – Issue 63
The “Frame effect”, Patrick Evans
A slippery no-man, Owen Marshall
Enduring legacy – Charles Brasch, patron, poet and collector (ed) Donald Kerr University of Otago Press in association with University of Otago Library, $39.95, ISBN 1877276650 Several years ago at a reunion of those who had held Otago University’s Robert…
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Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
The historian who opened our eyes, Jock Phillips
Michael King I got to know Michael King as a student at Victoria University in the mid-1960s. It was an exciting time. There was marching in the streets, heated late-night discussions over instant coffee. We were getting out from under.…
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