The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War
Author(s): Gavin McLean, Ian McGibbon & Kynan Gentry
The New Zealand Wars of the 1840s and 1860s, other nineteenth-century military encounters, the South African War, the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, the Gulf War, modern-day peacekeeping ...The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War contains the best, widest range of published and non-published written material on our people in warfare. This is a soldier's book - thus letters, diaries, journalists' reports, memoirs. The focus is on actual experience and on human responses to war. A vast array of personal experiences is covered, including POWs, the home front, medical/nursing efforts, as well as coverage of conscientious objectors. DoP September 2009, Auckland Trade Paperback
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Group (NZ)
- : Penguin Books (NZ)
- : 01 January 2009
- : 230 x 152mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Gavin McLean, Ian McGibbon & Kynan Gentry
- : Paperback
- : 1st Edition
- : 355.00993
- : Very Good
- : 496
- : Warfare & defence; Australasian & Pacific history: postwar, from c 1945 -
- : BxW photographs