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On the Fringe of Hell: New Zealanders and Military Discipline in the First World War

Pugsley, C

Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. pgs 360, illustrated. VG copy.

Scholarly record by the foremost contemporary historian of the NZEF, examining the often-ignored, even tapu, topic of military discipline as it applied to the citizen-army of the 1st New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War.

This is the definitive text on this subject. Important record of the NZEF, but with application to the other British forces that served in the Great War.

Pugsley addresses many issues including the application of Military Law and punishment as practiced by the various Dominions in the war.

“….Appalling conditions of trench warfare on the Western Front from which there was no escape. Many could not cope with these horrors and became disciplinary cases, there was little compassion.

The New Zealand Division was known as one of the finest serving in France, but part of the price paid for this was the execution of its men. By the author of "Gallipoli", this details the circumstances of those deaths….”

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