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An Awfully Big Adventure: New Zealand's World War Veterans
  

An Awfully Big Adventure: New Zealand's World War Veterans (Paperback)

By Tolerton, Jane

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What was it like to be a New Zealand soldier in the First World War? What impact did the war have on those who returned? Let them tell you. An Awfully Big Adventure traces the reminiscences and reflections of 80 veterans interviewed for the World War One Oral History Archive. Res ...

ISBN 9780143568490
Published 24 April 2013 by Penguin
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Blood Brothers
    

Blood Brothers (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Hopkins-Weise, Jeff

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This is a ground-breaking and sure to be controversial work that highlights, for the first time in detail, the story of how the New Zealand Land Wars of the 19th century were the true birthplace of an Australian and New Zealand military tradition that would become known as the AN ...

ISBN 9780143011187
Published 22 January 2009 by Penguin
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Devils on Horses: In the Words of the Anzacs in the Middle East 1916-19
  

Devils on Horses: In the Words of the Anzacs in the Middle East 1916-19 (Hardback, illustrated edition)

By Kinloch, Terry

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Using the soldiers' original letters and diaries wherever possible, the author describes all the crucial battles against the Ottoman Turkish Forces, including Romani, Gaza, Bir El Abds and the massacre at Surafend. It is also the story of the horses, only one of the 2500 New Zeal ...

ISBN 9780908988945
Published 1 January 2011 by Exisle Publishing
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Fitafita Mai Samoa, Le: The Force from Samoa - Soldiers from the Samoan Islands in the Great War
 

Fitafita Mai Samoa, Le: The Force from Samoa - Soldiers from the Samoan Islands in the Great War (Paperback)

By Liava'a, Christine

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At the beginning of the Great War, 1914-1918, Western Samoa was invaded and captured by a New Zealand force acting on behalf of Britain. Australia similarly invaded and captured German New Guinea. Thus the German possessions in the South Pacific were rendered incapable of assi ...

ISBN 9781927160275
Published 14 May 2013
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Maori in the Great War
  

Maori in the Great War (Hardback, 2nd Revised edition)

By Cowan, James

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This book is about Maori soldiers in the Great War who served in Gallipoli, France and Belgium. Contains a detailed nominal roll.

ISBN 9781877427343
Published 17 April 2011 by Willson Scott Publishing
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Gallipoli

Gallipoli (Trade Paperback/Paperback, New edition)

By Carlyon, L. A.

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A magisterial account of the campaign, and the greatest work to be written on this seminal Australian drama since Alan Moorehead's brilliant recreation 50 years ago. Researched in Turkey, Great Britain and Australia, Carlyon's book recounts the individual experiences of battle.

ISBN 9780330426039
Published 1 April 2010 by Pan Macmillan
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Gallipoli: In Search of a Family Story
 

Gallipoli: In Search of a Family Story (Paperback, New title)

By White, Pat

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Published to accompany a touring exhibition containing colour illustrations, text, Gallipoli diary and facsimile letters home, that form this poet/painter's tribute to Anzac Jack Dunn.

ISBN 9780476014633
Published 1 April 2005
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Rural Australia and the Great War: From Tarrawingee to Tangambalanga

Rural Australia and the Great War: From Tarrawingee to Tangambalanga (Paperback)

By McQuilton, John

In the cities and in the countryside of Australia, the Great War of 1914-18 marched to different tempos. This text evokes the experience of rural Australians by capturing the moods of the country towns of north eastern Victoria. It shows how individuals shaped the battles on the ...

ISBN 9780522849110
Published 11 March 1997 by Melbourne University Press
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The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War

The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War (Paperback)

By Gammage, Bill

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Uses the diaries and letters of a thousand Australian soldiers to reconstruct with great sensitivity the valour and the tragedy of their experience. Shows how and why the Great War was to have profound effects on the attitudes and ideals of Australia as a nation. First published ...

ISBN 9780522854947
Published 1 April 2010 by Melbourne University Press
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Rooster: the Story of an Australian Soldier's Experiences in the Mud and Blood of WW1
 

Rooster: the Story of an Australian Soldier's Experiences in the Mud and Blood of WW1 (Paperback)

By Game, W. E. C.

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William James Game was nicknamed "Rooster" because he was a "cocky bad tempered little bastard". His belief was that World War I was not a "great adventure". At 34 he joined up against his family's wishes because he believed the war would come to his homeland. This is his story.

ISBN 9780646531922
Published 1 December 2010
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