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• 18 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
  • CHAPTER 1 — Early Days
  • CHAPTER 31 — Cassino and the Mountains
  • CHAPTER 42 — The Surging Wave
• 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
  • CHAPTER 3 — Egypt
  • CHAPTER 4 — The Western Desert
  • CHAPTER 5 — Baggush Box
  • CHAPTER 8 — Campaign in Greece
  • CHAPTER 12 — The Division in the Desert
  • CHAPTER 20 — The Break-out Into the Liri Valley
  • CHAPTER 21 — Rome and the Pursuit North
  • CHAPTER 23 — Faenza to Trieste
  • [section]
• 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
  • CHAPTER 4 — The Campaign in Greece
  • CHAPTER 7 — Campaign in Libya
  • CHAPTER 14 — The Battle for Orsogna
  • CHAPTER 15 — Cassino
  • CHAPTER 20 — The Last Lap
• 21 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 1 — To the United Kingdom
  • CHAPTER 3 — Campaign in Greece
  • CHAPTER 7 — Defence of Egypt
  • CHAPTER 8 — Victory in Egypt
  • CHAPTER 10 — Tunisian Campaign
• 22 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 1 — These Were the Men
  • CHAPTER 2 — Maleme, Crete
  • CHAPTER 3 — Libya, 1941
  • CHAPTER 6 — Disaster on Ruweisat
  • CHAPTER 7 — Alamein
  • CHAPTER 8 — To Italy
  • CHAPTER 9 — Across the Sangro
  • CHAPTER 11 — La Romola
  • CHAPTER 12 — Adriatic
  • CHAPTER 13 — Casa Elta
  • CHAPTER 14 — ‘Hell of a Crack’
  • Appendix — RUGBY MEMORIES
• 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 17 — To the Senio
• 24 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 3 — Sidi Rezegh
• 25 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 2 — Greece
  • CHAPTER 3 — Second Libyan Campaign: Prelude
  • CHAPTER 4 — Sidi Rezegh
  • CHAPTER 5 — Syria
  • CHAPTER 6 — The Alamein Line
  • CHAPTER 7 — Battle of Alamein
  • CHAPTER 9 — Tunisia to Italy
  • CHAPTER 10 — The Sangro: Orsogna
  • CHAPTER 11 — Cassino
  • CHAPTER 13 — Liri Valley
  • CHAPTER 14 — Advance on Florence
  • CHAPTER 15 — Rimini to the Uso
  • CHAPTER 16 — Uso to the Savio
  • CHAPTER 17 — The Senio
• 26 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 12 — First Battle in Italy
  • CHAPTER 14 — The Battle for Cassino
• 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion
  • CHAPTER 1 — Going Overseas
  • CHAPTER 4 — Withdrawal from Greece
  • CHAPTER 5 — Crete
  • CHAPTER 6 — Sidi Rezegh
  • CHAPTER 7 — Sidi Azeiz and Gazala
  • CHAPTER 9 — Minqar Qaim
  • CHAPTER 10 — Ruweisat Ridge
  • CHAPTER 13 — The Battle of Alamein
  • CHAPTER 16 — Victory in Africa
  • CHAPTER 17 — The Sangro River
  • CHAPTER 18 — Orsogna
  • CHAPTER 20 — Cardito, Terelle, Balsorano
  • CHAPTER 21 — Florence
  • CHAPTER 24 — The Sillaro and Gaiana
• 28 (Maori) Battalion
  • CHAPTER 5 — Crete
  • CHAPTER 6 — Sollum and Gazala
  • CHAPTER 10 — Medenine and Point 209
  • CHAPTER 11 — Takrouna
  • CHAPTER 14 — Cassino
  • CHAPTER 17 — The Winter Campaign
  • CHAPTER 18 — The Last Battle
• 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery
  • 26 Battery at Kalabaka
  • ‘Action Front: Tanks!’
  • The Landing in the Prison Valley
  • Hard Fighting at Point 175
  • L Troop's Anti-Tank Action
  • The 4th Field Moves Up Behind the Armour
  • OPs Under Fire
  • Trouble for the Anti-Tankers
  • [section]
  • The Maoris Attack the Railway Station
  • Changes in Personnel
• 4th and 6th Reserve Mechanical Transport Companies
  • CHAPTER 2 — First Desert Campaign
  • CHAPTER 4 — Crete
  • CHAPTER 9 — To Teheran and Syria
  • [section]
• Alam Halfa and Alamein
  • CHAPTER 9 — Operation BERESFORD
  • CHAPTER 33 — Halfaya Pass
• Bardia to Enfidaville
  • Starting Positions for supercharge
  • 21 April—the End of oration
• Battle for Egypt
  • CHAPTER 22 — Capture of Ruweisat Ridge
  • CHAPTER 23 — The First Disaster
• Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa
  • Owners and firms
  • The people
  • Language and religious publishing
  • Dutch
  • Bibliography
• Chaplains
  • CHAPTER 6 — LIBYA 1941
  • CHAPLAINS IN THE ROYAL NEW ZEALAND AIR FORCE
  • [section]
• Crete
  • V: Preparations of 2 NZ Division: 30 April–19 May
  • I: Maleme and 22 Battalion
  • III: Canea-Galatas Sector
  • II: The Canea-Galatas Front
  • II: The Counter-attack for Galatas
  • I: The Ninth Day: 28 May
• Divisional Cavalry
  • CHAPTER 4 — The Regiment United
  • CHAPTER 5 — Greece
  • CHAPTER 6 — Crete
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Capture of Bardia
  • CHAPTER 10 — The Syrian Holiday
  • CHAPTER 12 — The Alamein Summer
• Divisional Signals
  • CHAPTER 7 — Battle for Crete
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Cyrenaican Offensive
  • CHAPTER 12 — A Hard Summer
  • CHAPTER 15 — From Bardia to Tripoli
  • CHAPTER 16 — Final Campaign in Africa
• Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume II
  • 53 — The Chief of the General Staff (Wellington) to General Freyberg
• Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume III
  • 350 — War Cabinet Minute — [Extract]
• Episodes & Studies Volume 1
  • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
  • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
• Episodes & Studies Volume 2
  • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
  • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
  • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
  • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
  • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
  • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
• Fulbright in New Zealand
  • Chapter 3 — Captain of — the Chalkies
• History of New Zealand. 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.
  • CHAPTER XXI. — 1883 TO 1894.
  • Index.
• Italy Volume I: The Sangro to Cassino
  • I: 15 March
  • II: 16 March
• Italy Volume II : From Cassino to Trieste
  • I: The Division Begins to Advance
  • II: The Senio Stopbank
• Journey Towards Christmas
  • CHAPTER 6 — WITHDRAWAL FROM GREECE
  • CHAPTER 7 — ISLAND INTERLUDE
  • CHAPTER 12 — SYRIA
  • CHAPTER 13 — WHILE SHEPHEARD'S WATCHED
  • CHAPTER 24 — ‘…AND THE REAR PARTY WILL CLEAN UP’
• Kōtare 2004, Volume Five, Number One
  • Johnson Goes Bush: — Geography and Fiction in Man Alone
• Letter from James Cowan to Horace Fildes, 16 December 1922
• Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 1927
• Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 22 March 1927
• Medical Services in New Zealand and The Pacific
  • IV: Hygiene and Sanitation
  • XII: Medical Arrangements for Home Defence Forces
  • General Index
  • I: National Medical Committee
  • II: Medical Boarding
  • XIII: Rehabilitation of Medical Officers
• Medical Units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy
  • CHAPTER 1 — BIRTH OF THE MEDICAL UNITS — 1939–40
  • CHAPTER 9 — SYRIAN INTERLUDE
  • CHAPTER 20 — SURGE TO VICTORY
  • In the Captured Medical Centre
  • The Casualty Clearing Station
• New Zealand's Burning — The Settlers' World in the Mid 1880s
  • Illustrations
  • 2 — The Setting of the Pyre
  • 4 — Taranaki and the Stratford Fire Storm
  • 6 — Relief and Reconstruction: Taranaki
  • 18 — The Settler Society
  • Town, country and bush
  • Bush commons
  • [section]
  • Nelson (1886 population 7,315)
  • Wanganui (1886 population 4,901)
  • Rivals for the hinterland
  • Hawera (1886 population 1,026)
  • The Haweral New Plymouth rift, January 1886
  • The Lambton Quay fire, 29 December 1885
  • The work of the railways
  • Wellington's Port Nicholson, 1885
  • Wellington as ‘head’ port of the ‘Cook Strait Lake’
  • The West Coast coal trade
  • The ‘Our Own Correspondents’
  • Travelling correspondents
  • Aid and relief in the Stratford-Midhirst crisis
  • Subject Index
  • A Abbreviations
  • 12 Country
  • 14 Sinews
  • 15 Nerves
  • 17 Leadership
  • 18 The Settlers' World
  • C Newspapers
• New Zealand Engineers, Middle East
  • CHAPTER 3 — In the Lee of the Storm
  • CHAPTER 4 — The Campaign in Greece
  • CHAPTER 5 — The Campaign in Crete
  • CHAPTER 7 — The Crusader Campaign
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Western Desert Railway
  • CHAPTER 12 — The Turn of the Tide
  • CHAPTER 18 — Cassino
  • CHAPTER 22 — To the Senio
  • CHAPTER 23 — To Ronchi
  • Divisional Engineer Units
• New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. I)
  • CHAPTER 1 — The Royal Air Force and Early New Zealand Representation
  • CHAPTER 2 — Early Operations from Britain and France
  • CHAPTER 3 — Meeting the German Attack
  • CHAPTER 4 — The Battle of Britain
  • CHAPTER 5 — Bombing and Reconnaissance, 1940
  • 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 11 — Day Fighters, 1941
  • CHAPTER 12 — Heavier Bombing Raids—Advent of No. 487 Squadron
  • CHAPTER 16 — Day Fighters During 1942
• New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. II)
  • CHAPTER 3 — Bomber Command and the Battle of the Ruhr
  • CHAPTER 6 — Daylight Raids by the Light Bombers
  • CHAPTER 7 — Day-Fighters and Fighter-bombers
  • CHAPTER 9 — Prelude to Invasion
  • CHAPTER 10 — Normandy
  • CHAPTER 11 — Flying Bombs and Rockets
  • CHAPTER 12 — Forward to the Rhine
• New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Volume III)
  • CHAPTER 3 — Western Desert—The Second Year
  • CHAPTER 4 — Western Desert—The Third Year
  • CHAPTER 5 — Algeria and Tunisia
  • CHAPTER 6 — Malta
  • CHAPTER 8 — Italy
  • CHAPTER 9 — Beyond the Italian Battlefront
  • CHAPTER 14 — Air Superiority and the Arakan Battle
  • CHAPTER 15 — Operation thursday and the Victory at — Imphal
  • CHAPTER 16 — Back to Rangoon—the Last Phase
• New Zealand Journal of Media Studies volume 9, number 1 : ‘Asian’ Media Arts Practice in/and Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Undoing ‘the folded lie’: media, art and ethics
• New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy
  • British Offensive
  • Warbrook Convalescent Home
  • Medical Units
  • The ADS with 6 Brigade
  • Evacuation of Wounded
  • The Work of the Regimental Medical Officers
  • Work at 1 NZ CCS
  • Medical Arrangements for ‘Left Hook’ at Mareth
  • Preparations for Move to Italy
• Nga kōrero a Reweti Kohere Mā
  • Poroporoaki ki a Hone Heke, M.P.
• Petrol Company
  • CHAPTER 1 — The Birth of a Unit
  • CHAPTER 2 — At Sea
  • CHAPTER 4 — Desert Training
  • CHAPTER 8 — Crete
  • CHAPTER 9 — Libya, 1941
  • CHAPTER 11 — Back to the ‘Blue’
  • CHAPTER 12 — A Fateful Month
  • CHAPTER 18 — Home at Last
• Political and External Affairs
  • CHAPTER 11 — Search for Unity
  • CHAPTER 19 — Stock Taking
• Royal New Zealand Air Force
  • ORGANISATION OF THE TERRITORIAL AIR FORCE, 1930
  • despatch of no.52 radar unit to guadalcanal
  • no. 56 unit
  • close and tactical air support, south bougainville campaign
• Settler Kaponga 1881–1914 — A Frontier Fragment of the Western World
  • A Flurry of Maps
  • The Mountain
  • The Trials of Daniel and Hannah Crowley
  • The Farms
  • Factory Dairying
  • The Sawmills
  • Other Sports and Recreations of the 1890s
  • Childhood
  • The Roads and Transport
  • The Farmers
  • The Role of Schools
  • Technical Education
  • Health Professionals
  • APPENDIX 1 — Biographical Notes
  • SUBJECT INDEX
  • Belonging
  • Abbreviations
  • 6 The Quality of Life, the 1890s
  • 9 The Making of Livings, 1900–14
  • Unpublished
  • Published
• Sport 15: white horse black dog
  • East Born
  • Contributors
• Sport 3: Spring 1989
  • Maurice Shadbolt — Monday's Warriors (from a work in progress)
• Supply Company
  • CHAPTER 6 — Crete
  • CHAPTER 7 — Advance into Libya
• The Adventures of Kimble Bent
  • Chapter II — Kimble BENT, Sailor and Soldier
  • Chapter VI — The Storming of Otapawa
  • Chapter X — The War-Chief and His Gods
  • Chapter XII — The Attack on Turuturu-Mokai Redoubt
  • Chapter XVII — Skirmishing and Fort-Building
  • Chapter XIX — The Tauranga-Ika Stockade
  • Chapter XX — A Scouting Adventure
  • Chapter XXI — The Fall of Tauranga-Ika
  • [section]
• The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s
  • 5 COLONY AND HEARTHLAND, 1874–80
  • 11 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE IMMIGRANT
  • 13 NEW ZEALAND — ARDEN
  • 14 AFTERWARDS
  • SUBJECT INDEX
  • INDEX OF PLACES
  • 11 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE IMMIGRANT
  • 12 NEW ZEALAND — FELDON
  • 13 NEW ZEALAND — ARDEN
  • 14 AFTERWARDS
  • Newspapers and Periodicals
• The Home Front Volume I
  • CHAPTER 3 — The First Moves
  • CHAPTER 4 — Response from the Home Front
  • CHAPTER 5 — Pacifism
  • CHAPTER 7 — Conscientious Objectors and Defaulters
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Menace of Japan
  • CHAPTER 11 — The Challenge is Accepted
  • CHAPTER 12 — Defence by the People
• The Home Front Volume II
  • CHAPTER 15 — Manpower is Directed
  • CHAPTER 16 — The Shoe Pinches
  • CHAPTER 17 — More Shortages
  • CHAPTER 18 — Aliens
  • CHAPTER 19 — Censorship
  • CHAPTER 21 — Women At War
  • CHAPTER 22 — Education
  • CHAPTER 23 — The Arts Survive
  • CHAPTER 24 — Victory at Last
• The New Zealand Dental Services
  • Dental Services for the Territorial Force
  • CHAPTER 23 — The Italian Campaign
  • Major J. A. S. Mackenzie, NZDC (OC Mobile Dental Section), to DDS Wellington, 14 June 1945:
  • [section]
• The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume I (1845–64)
  • [list of illustrations]
• The Pacific
  • III: From Pearl Harbour to Relief
  • III: Life Among the Niaoulis
  • IV: Negotiations—Political and Service
  • IV: The Capture of Green Islands
  • III: Battalions Move to the Solomons
• The Past and Present Of New Zealand With Its Prospects for the Future
  • [title page]
  • Contents.
  • Chapter I. — Sunshine and Shade; or, the Past, Present, and Future of the Church in New Zealand.
  • Chapter II. The Church
  • Chapter III. The Church
  • Chapter IV. The Church
  • Chapter VI. The English Church.
  • Chapter VII. King Movement.
  • Chapter VIII. King Movement—(continued.)
  • Chapter XII. Lecture on Wanganui
  • Chapter XV. Hints to Emigrants.
  • The Geography of New Zealand.
  • Tamihana Wiremu Tarapipi Te Waharoa
  • John Williams.
  • Bishop Monrad.
  • Acclimatisation.
  • Great Council Meeting.
  • Census of New Zealand, 1864.
  • Lighthouses on the Coast of New Zealand.
  • A List of the earliest Works printed in Maori.
  • New Zealand Press.
  • The Total Number of Acres in the possession of Europeans under Crop in the Several Electoral Districts in December 1864.
  • Customs Revenue at the several Ports for Quarter ending 30th June 1865.
  • Number and Tonnage of Vessels cleared outwards at the several Ports during the Quarter ending 30th June 1865.
  • Latitude and Longitude.
  • A Letter from one of the earliest Settlers in Wanganui.
• The Relief of Tobruk
  • CHAPTER 9 — Heading for Tobruk
  • CHAPTER 11 — The Attack on Point 175
  • CHAPTER 13 — The Capture of the Blockhouse
  • CHAPTER 24 — Belhamed and Zaafran
• The Royal New Zealand Navy
  • CHAPTER 12 — Minesweeping in New Zealand Waters
  • CHAPTER 14 — Anti-Submarine Policy
  • CHAPTER 25 — The Surrender of Japan
  • CHAPTER 29 — New Zealanders in the Royal Navy
  • ART. III.—The First New Zealand Navy; with some Episodes of the Maori War in connection with the British Navy.
• To Greece
  • CHAPTER 2 — The Second Echelon
  • CHAPTER 4 — The First Libyan Campaign, 1940–41
  • CHAPTER 5 — Assembly and Training of the New Zealand Division
  • The Aliakmon Line
  • Fourth Brigade Group
  • The Positions of 5 Brigade about Olympus Pass
  • The Germans approach Olympus Pass, Night 14–15 April
  • 5 Brigade begins its Withdrawal, Night 16–17 April
  • Action in Servia Pass, 15 April
  • The Rearguard at Elevtherokhorion, 18 April
  • 26 Battalion Completes its Withdrawal—by Train
  • The Selection of the Defence Line
  • The Withdrawal from Thermopylae begins, Night 22–23 April
  • The Evacuation from Megara, night 25–26 and day 26 April
  • The Germans Attack from the Air
  • Evacuations Continue during the Night 26–27 April
• War Economy
  • List of Illustrations
  • A Windfall – The Port Bowen
  • The Waterfront Control Commission

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• 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand

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