The Yanks Are Coming Harry Bioletti. Signed Copy.

We honestly didn't know about New Zealand. We didn't know where we were when we pulled in wharfside ... We loved the people, hell it was the the only thing that saved us. Oh yes there were fights in the streets of Wellington.

We understood what it was all about. The New Zealanders resented or favouritism with their women.

So remembers one American marine. With such vivid recollections from Americans, as well as from New Zealand men and women, Harry Bioletti records the American invasion of New Zealand between 1942 and 1944. Auckland, Wellington, Paraparaumu. Pukekohe and Warkworth were hosts to thousands of Marines, US Army and US Navy men.

Bioletti's narrative abounds with anecdotes, reminiscences songs and descriptions from homesick soldiers, impressionable schoolboys, love-sick brides, and girls who were out for a good time. These together with photographs, many of which have been reproduced from newly discovered glass plates, bring those years alive.

The book reveals some of the social upheaval caused by the American invasion and how it still influences the nature of New Zealand today.

No other book has explored the subject in depth before.

Card cover in very good condition.