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• 18 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
  • CHAPTER 19 — Alamein Chessboard
  • CHAPTER 37 — The Road to the Plains
• 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
  • CHAPTER 14 — Back to the Western Desert
• 21 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 7 — Defence of Egypt
  • CHAPTER 14 — Advance on Rome
• 22 Battalion
  • List of Illustrations
  • CHAPTER 3 — Libya, 1941
  • CHAPTER 5 — Minqar Qaim
  • CHAPTER 6 — Disaster on Ruweisat
• 23 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 8 — Battle for Egypt
• 25 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 4 — Sidi Rezegh
  • CHAPTER 10 — The Sangro: Orsogna
• 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion
  • CHAPTER 10 — Ruweisat Ridge
  • CHAPTER 12 — The New Zealand Box
  • CHAPTER 22 — The Romagna
• 28 (Maori) Battalion
  • CHAPTER 6 — Sollum and Gazala
  • CHAPTER 8 — Parry and Thrust
• 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery
  • Index
  • [section]
  • The Jock Column Policy Continues
  • Plenty of Work for the Bofors
• Alam Halfa and Alamein
  • CHAPTER 1 — The Opposing Armies
• Battle for Egypt
  • CHAPTER 12 — Twenty-four Tense Hours
  • CHAPTER 13 — Eighth Army in Last Ditch
  • CHAPTER 14 — The Enemy Plan
  • CHAPTER 15 — Eighth Army Holds the Line
  • CHAPTER 16 — Defeat of Ariete Division
  • CHAPTER 17 — Thrusts, Parries, and Plans
  • CHAPTER 18 — Both Armies Prepare Attacks
  • CHAPTER 19 — Battle of Tell el Eisa
  • CHAPTER 20 — Armies Spar for Positions
  • CHAPTER 21 — Planning for Ruweisat
  • CHAPTER 22 — Capture of Ruweisat Ridge
  • CHAPTER 23 — The First Disaster
  • CHAPTER 24 — Fighting on the Ridge
  • CHAPTER 25 — Enemy Prepares Counter-attack
  • CHAPTER 26 — Fourth Brigade Overrun
  • CHAPTER 27 — Reflections
  • CHAPTER 28 — Raids, Patrols, Consolidation
  • CHAPTER 29 — Plans for El Mreir
  • CHAPTER 30 — Advance of Sixth Brigade
  • CHAPTER 31 — Succession of Disasters
  • CHAPTER 33 — Reorganisation
  • Index
• Divisional Cavalry
  • CHAPTER 11 — The Race for Egypt
  • CHAPTER 12 — The Alamein Summer
• Journey Towards Christmas
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• New Zealand Engineers, Middle East
  • CHAPTER 7 — The Crusader Campaign
  • CHAPTER 10 — Neap Tide in Egypt
  • CHAPTER 12 — The Turn of the Tide
  • CHAPTER 18 — Cassino
  • Index
• New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Volume III)
  • CHAPTER 4 — Western Desert—The Third Year
• New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy
  • The Alamein Line
• Petrol Company
  • CHAPTER 11 — Back to the ‘Blue’
  • CHAPTER 12 — A Fateful Month
• Settler Kaponga 1881–1914 — A Frontier Fragment of the Western World
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • MAPS
  • TABLES
  • [section]
  • Acknowledgements
  • [section]
  • Biographical material
  • Farewell to Kaponga
  • A Personal Odyssey
  • Boundaries: ‘Kaupokonui’ to Kaponga
  • Sources
  • A Structured Approach
  • The Maori Dimension
  • A Cross-hatch Pattern
  • A Flurry of Maps
  • The Clearings
  • The Roads
  • The Nascent Township
  • The Mountain
  • The Wild
  • The Maori Dimension
  • An Axeman's World
  • Working on Wages and Contracts
  • Working for Subsistence
  • Working for the Markets
  • Home and Neighbourliness
  • Outings from the Bush
  • The Trials of Daniel and Hannah Crowley
  • A Wild Cattle Shooting Case
  • The Saga of Hayes's Bull
  • John Finlay's ‘Trip to the Bush’
  • The Chameleon House on Manaia Road
  • The Rip Van Winkle Effect
  • The Farms
  • The Bush
  • The Mountain
  • The Roads
  • The Township
  • Kaponga in South Taranaki
  • Kaponga and the World
  • Kaponga and New Zealand
  • Factory Dairying
  • The Farms
  • The Sawmills
  • The General Stores
  • Other Shops and Workshops
  • The Others
  • The Context
  • Major Sports and Social Activities, 1898–1899
  • Other Sports and Recreations of the 1890s
  • The Churches
  • Childhood
  • ‘Gunpowder's’ Bush Fire Ballad
  • The Piteous Death of a Servant Girl
  • Arthur Coxhead's Thistle Milking Machine
  • Change and Continuity
  • The Intrusive World
  • The Changing Township
  • Shame and Response
  • Kaponga in South Taranaki
  • Kaponga's District
  • The Roads and Transport
  • Wayfaring on Eltham Road
  • The Dairy Industry
  • The Farmers
  • Professionals and Public Servants
  • The Role of Schools
  • Technical Education
  • Health Professionals
  • The Others
  • A Golden Age?
  • Sport 1900–08
  • Sports and Recreation, April 1908 to April 1909
  • Days of Glory, 1909–14
  • Women and Girls in Edwardian Kaponga
  • Women, the Frontier and the World
  • A Mail Coach Disaster
  • A Fury of Gale, Fire and Cloudburst
  • A Swiss Tragedy
  • APPENDIX 1 — Biographical Notes
  • APPENDIX 2 — Population Estimates for the Kaponga District, 1886–1916
  • SUBJECT INDEX
  • A Missing Final Act?
  • The Kaponga Contribution to Life on Active Service
  • The War's Impact on Kaponga
  • Lament for a Lost Age
  • Two Worlds of ‘Tribalism’ and Parihaka's Lost Age
  • The Maori Dimension
  • Belonging
  • [subsection]
  • THE TOLL OF WAR
  • PRO PATRIA
  • [section]
  • (2) Population at census of 15 October 1916
  • General Election of 10 December 1914
  • ROAD BOARD AND COUNTY COUNCILS
  • KAPONGA SCHOOL
  • KAPONGA SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION — (Formed 27 July 1899)
  • Part Two — The 1890s: Centring on a Township — 4 Time and Space, the 1890s
  • 5 The Making of Livings, the 1890s
  • 6 The Quality of Life, the 1890s
  • 9 The Making of Livings, 1900–14
  • 10 The Quality of Life, 1900–14
  • EPILOGUE Afterwards, and other Perspectives
  • Unpublished
  • Published
  • II Secondary Sources
• The Home Front Volume I
  • CHAPTER 3 — The First Moves

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