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On the fringe of hell : New Zealanders and military discipline in the first world war / Christopher Pugsley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland [N.Z.] : 1991.Description: 360 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0340533218 (pbk.) :
Subject(s):
Contents:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-340) and index. -The discipline of enthusiasm -- A salutary introduction -- Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine -- The more disciplined soldiers of Europe -- An evident taint of enemy blood -- Field punishment -- An example to the rest -- Death on the Somme -- Just a Bohemian journalist -- Men on leave -- The winter of 1916 -- Messines, 1917 -- A chap by the name of King -- Conscription -- Passchendaele -- 1918 : the best in the world -- So the end has come. -The New Zealand Division was known as one of the finest serving in France, but part of the price paid for this was the execution of its men. By the author of Gallipoli , this details the circumstances of those deaths.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Heritage & Archives Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru Heritage Collections Reference - not for loan 940.412 PUG 1 Reference Only T00498379
Total holds: 0

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-340).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-340) and index. -The discipline of enthusiasm -- A salutary introduction -- Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine -- The more disciplined soldiers of Europe -- An evident taint of enemy blood -- Field punishment -- An example to the rest -- Death on the Somme -- Just a Bohemian journalist -- Men on leave -- The winter of 1916 -- Messines, 1917 -- A chap by the name of King -- Conscription -- Passchendaele -- 1918 : the best in the world -- So the end has come. -The New Zealand Division was known as one of the finest serving in France, but part of the price paid for this was the execution of its men. By the author of Gallipoli , this details the circumstances of those deaths.

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