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• 18 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
  • CHAPTER 4 — Garawla Interludes
  • CHAPTER 5 — ‘Freyberg's Wogs’
  • CHAPTER 12 — Reconstruction
  • CHAPTER 17 — Interrupted Holiday
  • CHAPTER 18 — Battle at Minqar Qaim
  • CHAPTER 24 — ‘Tanks of our Own’
• 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
  • CHAPTER 4 — The Western Desert
  • CHAPTER 5 — Baggush Box
  • CHAPTER 12 — The Division in the Desert
  • CHAPTER 14 — Back to the Western Desert
• 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
  • CHAPTER 3 — Training in Egypt
  • CHAPTER 10 — Return to the Desert
  • CHAPTER 13 — Farewell to Maadi
• 21 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 5 — Libya 1941
  • CHAPTER 6 — Syrian Interlude
  • CHAPTER 7 — Defence of Egypt
  • CHAPTER 8 — Victory in Egypt
• 22 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 5 — Minqar Qaim
  • CHAPTER 6 — Disaster on Ruweisat
• 23 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 8 — Battle for Egypt
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Battle of El Alamein
• 24 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 3 — Sidi Rezegh
  • CHAPTER 5 — El Mreir
  • CHAPTER 6 — El Alamein
• 25 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 3 — Second Libyan Campaign: Prelude
  • CHAPTER 5 — Syria
  • CHAPTER 6 — The Alamein Line
  • CHAPTER 7 — Battle of Alamein
  • CHAPTER 8 — Advance to Tunisia
• 26 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 5 — The Second Libyan Campaign
  • CHAPTER 6 — Syria
  • CHAPTER 7 — The Battle for Egypt
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Pursuit
• 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion
  • CHAPTER 1 — Going Overseas
  • CHAPTER 2 — Egypt
  • CHAPTER 9 — Minqar Qaim
  • CHAPTER 10 — Ruweisat Ridge
  • CHAPTER 14 — The Pursuit
• 28 (Maori) Battalion
  • CHAPTER 7 — Minqar Qaim
  • CHAPTER 8 — Parry and Thrust
  • CHAPTER 9 — Alamein to Tripoli
• 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery
  • List of Illustrations
  • Maadi and the Western Desert
  • Field and Anti-Tank Batteries are Reorganised
  • The Battle Plan
  • 5 Brigade Mans the El Adem Box
  • [section]
  • [section]
  • The Pursuit
• 4th and 6th Reserve Mechanical Transport Companies
  • CHAPTER 1 — The Beginning
  • CHAPTER 2 — First Desert Campaign
  • CHAPTER 3 — Greece
  • CHAPTER 6 — Towards the Frontier
  • CHAPTER 10 — Minqar Qaim
  • CHAPTER 20 — Into 1945
  • [section]
• Alam Halfa and Alamein
  • CHAPTER 1 — The Opposing Armies
  • CHAPTER 11 — Summary of the Battle
  • CHAPTER 13 — Preparations for the Offensive
  • CHAPTER 15 — The Eve of the Offensive
  • CHAPTER 27 — The Fourth Day of Battle
  • CHAPTER 28 — Australians Keep the Initiative
  • CHAPTER 30 — Operation supercharge
  • CHAPTER 31 — The End of the ‘Dog-fight’
  • CHAPTER 32 — The Pursuit
  • CHAPTER 33 — Halfaya Pass
  • Bibliography
  • Index
• Bardia to Enfidaville
  • Index
  • [section]
  • The Halt at Bardia
• Battle for Egypt
  • List of Maps
  • CHAPTER 3 — Alternative Roles
  • CHAPTER 5 — Rommel Strikes
  • CHAPTER 6 — Forced March to the Desert
  • CHAPTER 7 — Preparations for Decisive Battle
  • CHAPTER 8 — Auchinleck takes Command
  • CHAPTER 9 — Rommel's Battle Plans
  • CHAPTER 10 — Germans Break In
  • CHAPTER 11 — New Zealand Division Isolated
  • CHAPTER 12 — Twenty-four Tense Hours
  • CHAPTER 13 — Eighth Army in Last Ditch
  • CHAPTER 14 — The Enemy Plan
  • CHAPTER 18 — Both Armies Prepare Attacks
  • CHAPTER 22 — Capture of Ruweisat Ridge
  • CHAPTER 29 — Plans for El Mreir
  • Appendix II — 22 BATTALION IN CAPTIVITY
  • Index
• Divisional Cavalry
  • CHAPTER 2 — Maadi - Garawla - Baggush - Daba
  • CHAPTER 10 — The Syrian Holiday
  • CHAPTER 11 — The Race for Egypt
  • CHAPTER 14 — The Battle of Alamein
  • Index
• Divisional Signals
  • CHAPTER 2 — To Egypt and the United Kingdom
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Cyrenaican Offensive
  • CHAPTER 10 — Syria
  • CHAPTER 11 — Minqar Qaim
  • CHAPTER 12 — A Hard Summer
  • [section]
• Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume I
  • 99 — Note for the New Zealand Division from General Wavell
• Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume II
  • 144 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
  • 146 — Headquarters 2nd NZEF (Cairo) to the Chief of the General Staff (Wellington)
  • 147 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
  • 172 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
  • 174 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence
• Journey Towards Christmas
  • CHAPTER 12 — SYRIA
  • CHAPTER 13 — WHILE SHEPHEARD'S WATCHED
  • CHAPTER 18 — THE END OF THE FIRST HALF
• Medical Services in New Zealand and The Pacific
  • II: Prisoners from the Pre-Alamein Period
  • General Index
• Medical Units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy
  • INDEX
  • 4 Field Ambulance Moves to Western Desert
  • [section]
  • Desert Hospital at Gerawla
  • Return to the Desert
  • [section]
  • Flies
  • 1 General Hospital Hard-pressed
  • Bogged Near Sidi Haneish
  • CCS Moves up to Gerawla
  • Return of Field Units to Egypt
• New Zealand Engineers, Middle East
  • CHAPTER 7 — The Crusader Campaign
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Western Desert Railway
  • CHAPTER 10 — Neap Tide in Egypt
  • CHAPTER 12 — The Turn of the Tide
  • Index
  • [section]
  • [section]
  • Divisional Engineer Units
  • 19 Army Troops Company
  • 5 Field Park Company
  • 21 Mechanical Equipment Company
  • 18 Army Troops Company
  • Railway Units
  • SURVEY AND RAILWAY OPERATING AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES
  • 18 Army Troops Company
  • 21 Mechanical Equipment Company
  • Railway Operating Group
  • 18 Army Troops Company
• New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Volume III)
  • CHAPTER 3 — Western Desert—The Second Year
  • CHAPTER 4 — Western Desert—The Third Year
• New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy
  • Index
  • 2 NZ General Hospital at Garawla
  • General Medical Plan
  • Surgery in Mobile Surgical Unit, 23 November–5 December 1941
  • [section]
  • Medical Arrangements
  • Battle Situation
  • General Situation – The Pursuit to the Frontier
• Petrol Company
  • CHAPTER 6 — The Wavell Show
  • CHAPTER 11 — Back to the ‘Blue’
  • CHAPTER 13 — Eighth Army Conquers
• Prisoners of War
  • I: The North African Campaigns of 1942–43—Prisoners in Italian Hands
• Supply Company
  • CHAPTER 2 — Wavell's Campaign
  • CHAPTER 7 — Advance into Libya
  • CHAPTER 9 — Recall to the Desert
  • CHAPTER 10 — The Pursuit
  • CHAPTER 11 — Tunisia
• The New Zealand Dental Services
  • Extract from a Survey of Dental Services within the NZ Division by Major Middlemass
  • [section]
• The Relief of Tobruk
  • CHAPTER 2 — Lull in the Desert War
  • CHAPTER 3 — Preparing for Action
  • CHAPTER 4 — The crusader Plan
  • CHAPTER 6 — From Baggush to the Libyan Frontier
  • CHAPTER 7 — A disastrous Beginning
  • CHAPTER 12 — The Matruh Stakes
  • Index
• To Greece
  • CHAPTER 3 — Third Echelon joins the First
  • CHAPTER 4 — The First Libyan Campaign, 1940–41
• War Surgery and Medicine
  • Italy

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