A Guide to New Zealand Battlefields and Memorials
Ian McGibbon - Penguin Books - $25.00
This splendid and inspiring publication out this month is a companion guide to GALLIPOLI published in October 2014.
The
Western Front, where New Zealand fought its deadliest military campaign,
contains some of the most significant sites in the story of New Zealand’s First
World War – the Somme, Messines, Passchendaele and Le Quesnoy.
The
Western Front: A Guide to New Zealand Battlefields and Memorials is the indispensable handbook to
the history and geographic features of the European campaign for a modern,
general readership.
Easy to
follow and highly illustrated, it introduces the battlefields, cemeteries and
memorials, detailing the stories behind each and offering historical overviews
of New Zealand’s involvement.
The perfect
introduction to New Zealand and the Western Front and a must read fall planning to visit or simply wanting to know more on the subject..
My warm congratulations to the author and his publishers on two very fine guides which I wager will be in print for many years to come. I should mention too that Penguin Books published the titles in association with the Ministry for Culture & Heritage.
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