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• 18 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
  • CHAPTER 18 — Battle at Minqar Qaim
  • CHAPTER 20 — Disaster at Ruweisat
  • CHAPTER 25 — Back to Europe
  • CHAPTER 26 — The Brick Wall—Guardiagrele
  • CHAPTER 35 — Tiger Country
  • CHAPTER 40 — Through Mud and Water to the Senio
  • CHAPTER 43 — Flood Tide
  • Index
• 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
  • CHAPTER 6 — Helwan
  • CHAPTER 11 — Back to Egypt
  • CHAPTER 12 — The Division in the Desert
  • CHAPTER 14 — Back to the Western Desert
  • CHAPTER 19 — Cassino Fortress
  • CHAPTER 21 — Rome and the Pursuit North
  • CHAPTER 23 — Faenza to Trieste
  • [section]
• 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
  • CHAPTER 1 — Formation and Training in New Zealand
  • CHAPTER 4 — The Campaign in Greece
  • CHAPTER 5 — Crete
  • CHAPTER 7 — Campaign in Libya
  • CHAPTER 14 — The Battle for Orsogna
  • CHAPTER 20 — The Last Lap
• 21 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 1 — To the United Kingdom
  • CHAPTER 7 — Defence of Egypt
  • CHAPTER 8 — Victory in Egypt
  • CHAPTER 13 — Cassino
  • CHAPTER 14 — Advance on Rome
  • CHAPTER 18 — The Final Offensive
  • Index
• 22 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 13 — Casa Elta
• 23 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 1 — ‘What's in a Name?’
  • CHAPTER 4 — Campaigning in Greece
  • CHAPTER 5 — Battle of Crete
  • CHAPTER 8 — Battle for Egypt
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Battle of El Alamein
  • CHAPTER 12 — Maadi to Orsogna
  • CHAPTER 15 — On to Florence
  • CHAPTER 16 — Iesi to Gambettola
  • CHAPTER 17 — To the Senio
  • CHAPTER 19 — Marching On!
  • Index
• 24 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 1 — Formation and Training
  • CHAPTER 6 — El Alamein
  • CHAPTER 9 — Tebaga Gap
  • CHAPTER 13 — Cassino
• 25 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 4 — Sidi Rezegh
  • CHAPTER 8 — Advance to Tunisia
  • CHAPTER 9 — Tunisia to Italy
  • CHAPTER 10 — The Sangro: Orsogna
  • CHAPTER 11 — Cassino
  • Index
• 26 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 1 — In Burnham and Journey Overseas
  • CHAPTER 3 — Greece
  • CHAPTER 5 — The Second Libyan Campaign
  • CHAPTER 7 — The Battle for Egypt
  • CHAPTER 10 — The Fall of Tunisia
  • CHAPTER 12 — First Battle in Italy
  • CHAPTER 14 — The Battle for Cassino
  • CHAPTER 16 — The Advance on Florence
• 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion
  • CHAPTER 2 — Egypt
  • CHAPTER 4 — Withdrawal from Greece
  • CHAPTER 5 — Crete
  • CHAPTER 6 — Sidi Rezegh
  • CHAPTER 11 — El Mreir
  • CHAPTER 13 — The Battle of Alamein
  • CHAPTER 19 — Cassino
  • CHAPTER 20 — Cardito, Terelle, Balsorano
• 28 (Maori) Battalion
  • CHAPTER 1 — Formation and Departure
  • CHAPTER 5 — Crete
  • CHAPTER 10 — Medenine and Point 209
• 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery
  • CHAPTER 21 — Winter in the Romagna
  • Index
  • Molos: The Gunners' Battle
  • A Merciless Bombardment of 25 Battery
  • Trouble for the Anti-Tankers
  • Christmas and the New Year by the Gulf of Sirte
  • Edging Towards the Sangro River
  • Operation dickens
• 4th and 6th Reserve Mechanical Transport Companies
  • CHAPTER 2 — First Desert Campaign
  • CHAPTER 3 — Greece
  • CHAPTER 10 — Minqar Qaim
  • CHAPTER 20 — Into 1945
  • Sunday, 23 November
  • Monday, 24 November
  • [section]
• Alam Halfa and Alamein
  • CHAPTER 5 — Patrols and Raids
  • CHAPTER 13 — Preparations for the Offensive
• Bardia to Enfidaville
  • 23 Battalion
  • 24 Battalion
  • 2 NZ Division after Takrouna
• Battle for Egypt
  • CHAPTER 11 — New Zealand Division Isolated
  • CHAPTER 17 — Thrusts, Parries, and Plans
  • CHAPTER 20 — Armies Spar for Positions
  • CHAPTER 22 — Capture of Ruweisat Ridge
  • CHAPTER 30 — Advance of Sixth Brigade
• Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa
  • Directories
  • Origins and development
  • Book collectors
  • Before 1877
  • German
  • Bibliography
• Chaplains
  • CHAPTER 4 — GREECE AND CRETE
  • [section]
• Crete
  • V: Preparations of 2 NZ Division: 30 April–19 May
  • II: The Other Battalions and 5 Brigade HQ
  • I: The Counter-attack at Maleme
  • I: The Withdrawal of 5 Brigade
  • II: The Canea-Galatas Front
  • III: The Withdrawal of the Brigades and the Movement of Force Reserve
  • I: Force Reserve and 42nd Street
  • Index
• Divisional Cavalry
  • CHAPTER 5 — Greece
  • CHAPTER 14 — The Battle of Alamein
• Divisional Signals
  • CHAPTER 2 — To Egypt and the United Kingdom
  • CHAPTER 8 — Return to Egypt
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Cyrenaican Offensive
  • CHAPTER 10 — Syria
  • CHAPTER 16 — Final Campaign in Africa
  • CHAPTER 21 — Into the Plains
• Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume III
  • Index
  • 59 — The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to the Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • 161 — The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs to the Prime Minister of New Zealand
• Earliest New Zealand
  • Appendix. — Letters by the Husband of Hannah Butler.
• Episodes & Studies Volume 1
  • [casualty]
• Episodes & Studies Volume 2
  • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
  • ‘Qui Patitur Vincit’
  • First Leander
  • A MILITARY LIABILITY
  • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
  • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
  • Types of Escape
• Fulbright in New Zealand
  • [section]
• History of New Zealand. Vol. III.
  • Contents of Vol. III.
  • Chapter XVII. — 1872–1874. — Mclean and The Maoris.
  • Chapter XVIII. — 1874—1877. — Session of 1874.
  • CHAPTER XIX. — 1877—1881. — THE “WAKA MAORI” NEWSPAPER.
  • CHAPTER XX. — 1881—1882. — THE RAID UPON PARIHAKA.
  • Index.
• Italy Volume I: The Sangro to Cassino
  • I: The Strategic Prelude
  • I: The Origin of dickens
  • I: 17 March
  • I: 20 March
• Italy Volume II : From Cassino to Trieste
  • I: A Change in Plan
  • V: La Romola
  • II: The Capture of Faenza
  • V: Disbandment of 2 NZEF
• Journey Towards Christmas
  • (3) Diversion to a Dragon-Slaying
• Kōtare 2004, Volume Five, Number One
• Medical Services in New Zealand and The Pacific
  • V: Landing on Nissan Island
  • I: Hospitals at Corinth and Kalamata
  • V: Sickness in New Zealand
  • XII: Medical Arrangements for Home Defence Forces
  • I: National Medical Committee
  • II: Medical Boarding
• Medical Units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy
  • CHAPTER 18 — RIMINI
  • In Action at Thermopylae
  • Embarkation
  • CCS Team in Sicily
• New Zealand Engineers, Middle East
  • CHAPTER 10 — Neap Tide in Egypt
  • CHAPTER 23 — To Ronchi
  • [section]
  • [section]
  • [section]
• New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. I)
  • CHAPTER 3 — Meeting the German Attack
  • CHAPTER 4 — The Battle of Britain
  • CHAPTER 5 — Bombing and Reconnaissance, 1940
  • CHAPTER 7 — Air War at Sea
  • CHAPTER 8 — Early Bomber Offensive
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Part of No. 75 Squadron
  • CHAPTER 10 — Increasing New Zealand Participation— Formation of Nos. 485,488, and 489 Squadrons
  • CHAPTER 13 — Pathfinders and Raids on Italy
• New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. II)
  • CHAPTER 2 — Aircraft against U-boat
  • CHAPTER 3 — Bomber Command and the Battle of the Ruhr
  • CHAPTER 5 — With Mine, Bomb, and Torpedo
  • CHAPTER 6 — Daylight Raids by the Light Bombers
  • CHAPTER 9 — Prelude to Invasion
  • CHAPTER 10 — Normandy
  • CHAPTER 13 — Transport and Special Duties
  • Index
• New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Volume III)
  • CHAPTER 2 — Early Operations over Many Fronts
  • CHAPTER 4 — Western Desert—The Third Year
  • CHAPTER 5 — Algeria and Tunisia
  • CHAPTER 6 — Malta
  • CHAPTER 7 — Sicily
  • CHAPTER 16 — Back to Rangoon—the Last Phase
  • Index
• New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy
  • 4 NZ General Hospital Opens at Helwan
  • Medical Staffs Remain with Wounded
  • At 3 General Hospital
  • 6 MDS
• Petrol Company
  • CHAPTER 1 — The Birth of a Unit
  • CHAPTER 7 — Campaign in Greece
• Political and External Affairs
  • Index
• Prisoners of War
  • II: Last Escapes to Allied Lines in Italy
  • Index
• Royal New Zealand Air Force
  • ORGANISATION OF THE TERRITORIAL AIR FORCE, 1930
  • FORMATION OF NEW GENERAL RECONNAISSANCE SQUADRONS
  • REQUESTS TO BRITAIN FOR REINFORCEMENTS
  • FAFAI SCHEME
  • FORMATION OF NEW ZEALAND SQUADRON IN NEW CALEDONIA
  • MOVE OF NO. 15 SQUADRON TO GUADALCANAL
  • LANDING ON BOUGAINVILLE
  • FIGHTER SWEEPS OVER RABAUL
  • operations by nos. 25, 30 and 31 squadrons
  • bomber-reconnaissance operations, february—june
  • growth of the air transport organisation
  • establishments in new zealand, august-september 1943
  • Index
• Settler Kaponga 1881–1914 — A Frontier Fragment of the Western World
  • Farewell to Kaponga
  • A Personal Odyssey
• Sport 12: Autumn 1994
  • Alastair Agnew — Water Works
• Sport 15: white horse black dog
  • When We Stopped
  • Contributors
• Sport 16: Autumn 1996
  • Contributors
• Sport 2: Autumn 1989
  • Fiona Farrell Poole — The Tale of Richard Seddon
• Sport 4: Autumn 1990
  • Janette Sinclair — Outlines of Gondwanaland
• Sport 7: Winter 1991
  • ♣ Paola Bilbrough — Writer's Block
• Sport 8: Autumn 1992
  • [section]
• Supply Company
  • CHAPTER 2 — Wavell's Campaign
  • CHAPTER 8 — From Libya to Syria
  • CHAPTER 9 — Recall to the Desert
  • CHAPTER 10 — The Pursuit
  • CHAPTER 13 — Sangro and Cassino
  • CHAPTER 15 — Rome and Florence
  • CHAPTER 17 — The Final Advance
  • Index
• The Home Front Volume I
  • CHAPTER 3 — The First Moves
  • CHAPTER 4 — Response from the Home Front
  • CHAPTER 10 — War Comes to the Pacific
  • CHAPTER 11 — The Challenge is Accepted
  • CHAPTER 12 — Defence by the People
  • CHAPTER 13 — Russia and the War
• The Home Front Volume II
  • CHAPTER 15 — Manpower is Directed
  • CHAPTER 16 — The Shoe Pinches
  • CHAPTER 17 — More Shortages
  • CHAPTER 21 — Women At War
  • CHAPTER 22 — Education
  • CHAPTER 23 — The Arts Survive
  • CHAPTER 24 — Victory at Last
  • Index
• The Maori As He Was : A Brief Account of Maori Life as it was in Pre-European Days
  • Folk-lore
• The New Zealand Dental Services
  • New Zealand Dental Corps. War Establishment Notes
• The New Zealanders at Gallipoli
  • [section]
  • Our First Battle.
  • [section]
  • The Taking and Losing of “Old No. 3 Post.”
  • The Place-Names of Anzac.
  • A Gallipoli Diary.
• The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume I (1845–64)
  • [list of illustrations]
• The Pacific
  • CHAPTER 12 — Occupation in Japan
  • III: From Pearl Harbour to Relief
  • IV: The Capture of Green Islands
  • II: The Air Force Story
  • Index
• The Past and Present Of New Zealand With Its Prospects for the Future
  • Chapter VI. The English Church.
  • Chapter VII. King Movement.
  • Chapter XII. Lecture on Wanganui
  • Chapter XV. Hints to Emigrants.
  • The Geography of New Zealand.
  • A New Zealand Grace Darling.
  • Acclimatisation.
  • Lighthouses on the Coast of New Zealand.
  • New Zealand Press.
  • A Letter from one of the earliest Settlers in Wanganui.
• The Relief of Tobruk
  • CHAPTER 6 — From Baggush to the Libyan Frontier
  • CHAPTER 12 — The Matruh Stakes
  • CHAPTER 16 — A Costly Night Attack on Sidi Rezegh
• The Royal New Zealand Navy
  • CHAPTER 4 — The Battle of the River Plate
  • CHAPTER 11 — Protection of Shipping
  • CHAPTER 12 — Minesweeping in New Zealand Waters
  • CHAPTER 13 — The Loss of HMS Neptune
  • CHAPTER 14 — Anti-Submarine Policy
  • CHAPTER 18 — The Minesweeping Flotillas
  • CHAPTER 25 — The Surrender of Japan
  • CHAPTER 29 — New Zealanders in the Royal Navy
  • Appendix III — RECORD OF HMS ACHILLES
  • Index
  • ART. III.—The First New Zealand Navy; with some Episodes of the Maori War in connection with the British Navy.
  • FIRST LEANDER, 1780:
• To Greece
  • CHAPTER 3 — Third Echelon joins the First
  • The Assembly of Mackay Force: 8–9 April
  • The Positions of 5 Brigade about Olympus Pass
  • Embarkations and Movements on the night 24–25 April
  • The Evacuation from Megara, night 25–26 and day 26 April
  • Preparations for Defence
  • Action is taken to prevent the Parachute Troops moving South
• War Economy
  • Details of Public Works Expenditure
• War Surgery and Medicine
  • [section]
• ‘Guardians and Wards’ : (A study of the origins, causes, and the first two years of the Mau in Western Samoa.)
  • [untitled]
  • CHAPTER I — EPIDEMICS
  • CHAPTER III — ‘GERMANS and REBELS’
  • CHAPTER V — ‘THE LEAGUE, THE COLONEL, THE MOODY CHILD’
  • The establishment of the Citizen's Committee - during Tate's Administration
  • CHAPTER II — ‘THE MAU’ — (1926 - 1927)
  • CHAPTER IV — ‘A MATTER OF INTERPRETATION’
  • OLAF FREDERICK NELSON
  • SIR GEORGE SPAFFORD RICHARDSON
  • B. SECONDARY — I Published

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