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A bloody road home : World War Two and New Zealand's heroic Second Division / Christopher Pugsley
Bib ID 6616338
Format BookBook [text, still image, volume]
Author
Pugsley, Christopher, author
 
Description Auckland, New Zealand : Penguin, 2014 
©2014 
620 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some coloured), maps (some coloured), portraits (some coloured) ; 27 cm 
ISBN 9780143571896 (hardback)
0143571893 (hardback)
Full contents
  • 1. Raising a New Zealand division
  • 2. Freyberg's circus in Egypt
  • 3. Greece
  • 4. Withdrawal from Greece
  • 5. Defending Crete
  • 6. Crete : the airborne assault
  • 7. Crete : a lost battle
  • 8. Preparing for desert operations
  • 9. Operation CRUSADER
  • 10. The battle for Tobruk
 
Notes

"The National Army Museum acknowledges that this work was made possible through the generosity of an anonymous donor who had a love of history. It was the wish of the donor that a substantial work on the Second New Zealand Division in World War Two should be researched and published. The National Army Museum is delighted to present "A Bloody Road Home", which fulfills in every way the wish of the donor" -- Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [290]-602) and index.

The assistance of the New Zealand History Research Trust Fund (Ministry for Culture and Heritage) towards the production of this book is gratefully acknowledged by the publisher.

Subjects New Zealand. Army. Division, 2nd.  |  World War, 1939-1945 -- New Zealand.
Other authors/contributors National Army Museum (N.Z.), issuing body  |  New Zealand History Research Trust Fund, sponsoring body

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