Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
The great adventure ends : New Zealand and France on the Western Front
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
John Douglas Publishing Ltd
Place
Date
2013
Physical Description
424 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780987666581
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
Introduction: Myths and realities of a shared experience
1. Over the fortifications / Leslie Averill
2. The story of a ladder: the New Zealand Rifle Brigade in Le Quesnoy / Franck Bruyere
3. The Battle of the Sambre: the liberation of Le Quesnoy / Herbert Farrant)
Part one: Memories of war: the French experience
4. Guillaume Apollinaire: a poet and the war / Paul Raoult
5. Going to war from Saint-Aubert / Michael Bourlet
6. Feeding civilians in occupied France / Nathalie Philippe
7. Sport in the Great War / Arnaud Waquet)
Part two: Memories of war: the New Zealand experience
8. What a way to see the world! / Sue Haxton
9. "It was hell, Merrilyn, it was just hell" / Nigel Murphy
10. My father went to war / Joan Clouston
11. First up the ladder / Colin Averill
12. "Curly" Blyth remembers / David Blyth
13. A Kiwi airman over the Western front / Richard Stowers
14. The medics come of age / Ross Blair
15. Tunnelling under Arras / Anthony Byledbal
16. Guardian angel of the Anzacs / Jane Tolerton
17. From Picardy to Picton / Alison Oosterman
18. Katherine Mansfield's literary response to the Great War / Gerri Kimber
Part three: Realities of war: 1918
19. "Ka mate! Ka ora!": Bapaume 1918 / Olivier Roussel
20. A year of war for the "Dinks" / John Crawford
21. Attacking Le Quesnoy / Christopher Pugsley
22. Defending Le Quesnoy / Matthias Strohn
23. 1918-19: what lay ahead for the citizen-soldier? / Gilles Krugler Part four: Coming home and remembering
24. Painting the road to Le Quesnoy / Caroline Lord
25. The consolation of the familiar / Kingsley Baird.
Public Access Text
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Collection Type
Pou Maumahara
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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