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New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front by Wright, Matthew

ISBN: 9780947506193 PUBLISHER: Oratia Books FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 496 PUBLICATION DATE: 6.04.2017

DESCRIPTION: In The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front, historian Matthew Wright goes to the heart of how the First World War affected the lives of ordinary New Zealanders. The book analyses what it was like for New Zealand soldiers at the two main battle fronts where they fought, and frames it with the social effects back home. Beginning with an outline of prewar New Zealand society, Wright portrays the extraordinary world of war into which its young men plunged as they entered the baptism of fire at Gallipoli. The end of innocence that the withdrawal from the Dardanelles implied led to a harder, more fatalistic approach in the theatre of mechanised death that was the Western Front. By war's end, hope and glory had faded, replaced by a new view of military heroism in a country forever changed

Table of Contents

CONTENTS Foreword 7 Introduction 9 1 Jingoism 17 2 Massey's Tourists 45 3 A 'WildCat' Expedition 67 4 Innocence Destroyed 90 5 Enduring the Unendurable 105 6 Chunuk Bair 127 7 Withdrawal 149 8 Scales of War 161 9 Mechanised Death 177 10 Biting and Holding 203 11 Passchendaele 223 12 Storm Fronts 245 13 Armistice 268 14 A land for Heroes? 285 15 Myth and Memory 299 Endnotes 317 Bibliography 370 Index 385

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