The Anzac Experience: New Zealand,
Australia and Empire in the First World War
By
Christopher Pugsley
Published by
Oratia Books
ISBN:
978-0-947506-00-1
Paperback,
$45.00
The Anzac Experience is an ambitious work that traces the
evolution by trial and area of the New Zealand army, as well as Australian and
Canadian forces, from the South African War to the First World War.
A Montana
Book Awards finalist when it was first published in 2004 and now in a new
edition, Christopher Pugsley’s brilliant work tells the story of citizen armies
becoming professional as they took the lessons of the Gallipoli landings and
applied these to the Western Front – becoming the fighting elite of the British
armies in France.
Reviewing for
The Journal of Military History, Allan Converse described the book as ‘one of
the best works of Australasian military history I have ever read’.
Written in
Pugsley’s trademark clear and concise style, with plentiful maps and photos,
this is a work that is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand New
Zealand’s military contribution one hundred years ago.
About the author:
Christopher
Pugsley is one of New Zealand’s most distinguished military historians.
Formerly a Lieutenant-Colonel in the New Zealand Army, he was a lecturer in
military studies in New Zealand and Australia, and retired in 2012 as a Senior
Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Among his recent works are
the fifth edition of Gallipoli: The New
Zealand Story and A Bloody Road Home:
World War Two and New Zealand’s Heroic Second Division. He is Historical
Director of the exhibition ‘Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War’ at Te Papa
Tongarewa, Wellington, which is current attracting record-breaking crowds.
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