Nga Tama Toa - The Price of Citizenship - C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945

Monty Soutar

Published by David Bateman, Auckland, 2008-Hardcover. 1st. Edition- 448pp Prolifically illustrated. The fascinating story of C Company, Maori Battalion told through personal recollections, eyewitness accounts, numerous anecdotes and fantastic photographs. At times heart-rending, at times heart-warming, this impressive book captures the special 'spirit' of the Maori Battalion - an amazing story that documents the stories of those who were actually there. Little wear to d/j, book VG-NF

Synopsis Nga Tama Toa is dedicated and pays tribute to the veterans of C Company - Nga Kaupoi, whose members were drawn from Torere in the Eastern Bay of Plenty to Muriwai south of Gisborne. As part of the infamous Maori Battalion, 995 men joined C Company and fought in the Second World War.

Bob Maru (the first chairman of Nga Taonga a Nga Tama Toa Trust) instigated the research on the wishes of Sir Apirana Ngata, who wrote a letter in 1946 suggesting the story of C Company be written. The Trust and researchers spoke to and recorded many of the returned servicemen, their wives and whanau, many of whom have since passed on.

Dr Monty Soutar wrote the book on behalf of the Trust, made up of surviving C Company veterans, their wives, widows and whanau. Together they spent 16 years interviewing, researching and compiling this publication. When the project began, 135 C Company veterans were alive.

The book breaks new ground in telling the fascinating story of C Company. Personal recollections and eyewitness accounts, many anecdotes and hundreds of photographs are woven through this history, from the inception of C Company in 1939 to the return of fits last members in 1946.............'

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