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Title: |
The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli & the Western Front |
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| By (author): |
Matthew Wright Foreword by: Christopher Pugsley |
| ISBN10-13: |
0947506195 : 9780947506193 |
| Illustrations: |
b/w photos |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
240x170mm |
| Pages: |
392 |
| Weight: |
.850 Kg. |
| Published: |
Oratia Books - April 2017 |
| List Price: |
38.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
First World War : New Zealand |
| Historian Matthew Wright goes to the heart of how the First World War affected the lives of ordinary New Zealanders. The book analyses what it was like for New Zealand soldiers at the two main battle fronts where they fought, and frames it with the social effects back home. Beginning with an outline of pre-war New Zealand society, Wright portrays the extraordinary world of war into which its young men plunged as they entered the baptism of fire at Gallipoli. The end of innocence that the withdrawal from the Dardanelles implied led to a harder, more fatalistic approach in the theatre of mechanised death that was the Western Front. By wars end, hope and glory had faded, replaced by a new view of military heroism -- in a country forever changed. |
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