Shattered glory : the New Zealand experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front / Matthew Wright.

By:

Wright, Matthew, 1962- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin, 2010Description: 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0143020560
9780143020561

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

940.41293 22

Online resources:

Table of Contents

Review: "The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 destroyed New Zealand's fantasies of war as a glorious schoolboy adventure on behalf of a beloved Empire. The Western Front campaign that followed in 1916-18 gave shape to the emotional impact. it was a horror world of death and mud that destroyed the souls of the young men who fought in it. Together, these two campaigns shaped the lives of a generation of New Zealanders and have given a particular meaning to modern memory of war. In Shattered Glory, highly regarded historian Matthew Wright illuminates New Zealand's human experience during these two First World War campaigns, exploring the darker side of New Zealand's iconic symbols of national identity and explaining some of the realities behind the twenty-first century mythology." --Back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	940.41293 WRI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A473143B

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Previous	940.41293 NEW New Zealand's great war : New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War /	940.41293 SCO Before ANZAC, beyond Armistice : the Central Otago soldiers of World War One and the home they left behind /	940.41293 STO Bloody Gallipoli : the New Zealanders' story /	940.41293 WRI Shattered glory : the New Zealand experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front /	940.4144 MAR Mud beneath my boots : a poignant memoir of the effects of war on a young New Zealander /	940.4144 WRI Western Front : the New Zealand Division in the First World War, 1916-18 /	940.425 MOO Gallipoli.	Next

Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-395) and index.

"The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 destroyed New Zealand's fantasies of war as a glorious schoolboy adventure on behalf of a beloved Empire. The Western Front campaign that followed in 1916-18 gave shape to the emotional impact. it was a horror world of death and mud that destroyed the souls of the young men who fought in it. Together, these two campaigns shaped the lives of a generation of New Zealanders and have given a particular meaning to modern memory of war. In Shattered Glory, highly regarded historian Matthew Wright illuminates New Zealand's human experience during these two First World War campaigns, exploring the darker side of New Zealand's iconic symbols of national identity and explaining some of the realities behind the twenty-first century mythology." --Back cover.

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