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Te mura o te ahi : the story of the Maori Battalion

documentary heritage
  • Description

    "How Maori soldiers coped with the pressures on and off the battlefield during the Second World War ... the men and incidents of the 28 Maori Battalion ... one of the finest fighting units of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force"--Pref.

  • Place
  • Other Id

    D767.851 GAR (Library of Congress Call Number)

    6272 (Cat ID)

    C 5157 (DBTextworks system ID)

    58559 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Te mura o te ahi : the story of the Maori Battalion
  • Primary Maker
  • Contributor/Publisher
    Reed
  • Place
  • Date
    1992
  • Physical Description

    208 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

  • ISBN/ISSN
    0790002671
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    2 items in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category
  • Content
    1. Maori military heritage
    2. Baptism of fire: Maori in the First World War
    3. Call to arms
    4. Farewell Aotearoa
    5. Greece: the first test
    6. Battle for Crete: counter-attack at Maleme Airfield
    7. Forty-second street and withdrawal from Crete
    8. Desert fighters
    9. Syria: Colonel Dyer departs
    10. Minqar Qaim to Munassib massacre
    11. El Alamein to Tripoli : yearning for home
    12. Medenine and Tebaga Gap : defiantly facing the enemy
    13. Takrouna: 'The politics of bravery'
    14. To the victors the spoils of war
    15. The Italian campaigns
    16. Monte Cassino
    17. Rest, recreation and padres
    18. War's end
    19. Men under fire
    20. When the Maori came home again.
  • Public Access Text

    Spine title: Story of the Maori Battalion. "First published in paperback 1995"--T. p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-202) and index.

  • Collection Type
    Reserve Collection
    Pou Maumahara
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023

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