Letters from the Battlefield - Softcover
A collection of letters written home to parents, siblings, lovers, wives and children of New Zealand soldiers in the Great War. These letters describe exactly what it was like to be at war: the waiting, the nervous anticipation, the noise, the dirt, the lice, the stench of dead and rotting bodies decaying in the sun and then the relative sanctuary of hospital. These letters demonstrate the human face of the battlefield.
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Glyn Harper is the commanding officer in the New Zealand Army's Military Studies Institute and has been appointed as the army's official historian for the East Timor conflict. He is the author of two previous books.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers PTY
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1869503791
- ISBN 13 9781869503796
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
- EditorHarper Glyn
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. Photos Maps, Drawings (illustrator). 1st. During WWI more that 100,000 young NZ soldiers served on the battlefields of that conflict. This collection of extracts from letters written to family and friends at home paints a more poignant and unvarnished picture of life on the different fronts than that depicted in formal histories. Nearly NZ 17,000 soldiers died of combat causes and another 1000 from injuries shortly after hostilities ended while thousands were wounded. Only 35 of those soldiers are represented in this collection of letters and many of the correspondants also lost their lives. One writer had three other brothers serving in the NZ forces, three brothers were killed, the one who survived returned home severely wounded --- a grim example of the dreadful cost to NZ of WWI. The letters are arranged in campaign sequence beginning with Gallipoli then France and the Western Front 1916, Sinai- Palestine, Western Front-France and Belgium 1917 and Western Front 1918. First edition of 2001 from Harper Collins, 168 pages including endnotes, bibliography and index, numerous small portrait photos, some group photos plus a number of general scenes, several maps and drawings included with letters. Tinted pictorial card covers VG with light damage to corners, internally VG with corner turn-over light creases some pages, no inscriptions. Seller Inventory # 004543
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