Hutchinson, Garrie,

Pilgrimage : a traveller's guide to New Zealanders in two world wars / Garrie Hutchinson. - 304 pages : colour illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Introduction: There's an 'NZ' in Anzac -- Acknowledgements and guide to sources -- Travelling to war -- Part One: New Zealand in the First World War; Gallipoli, 1915 -- Palestine and the Middle East, 1916-19 -- The Western Front, 1916-18 -- Part Two: New Zealand in the Second World War -- Greece and Crete, 1941 -- New Zealand in the RAF, 1939-45 -- North Africa, 1940-43 -- South-East Asia and the Pacific, 1941-45 -- ItaLY, 1943-45.

"There are more than 30,000 New Zealand men and women, casualties of the two world wars, buried in cemeteries and named on memorials around the world. On a journey through time and place, Garrie Hutchinson takes you to these foreign battlefields, revealing their past and present. With GPS co-ordinates, written descriptions, maps and handy hints, and illustrated with exquisite photography throughout, Pilgrimage is a practical and up-to-date travel companion intertwined with a rich and elegantly told history"--Publisher information.

0143567799 9780143567790


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World War, 1914-1918--Monuments--Guidebooks
World War, 1939-1945--Monuments--Guidebooks
World War, 1914-1918--New Zealand
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