The Home Front this energetic

this energetic

For the first time the perspective of these key actors is the subject of serious analysis

the home front and New Zealand’s role in Japan after the end of hostilities in the Pacific round out this rich visual account of a conflict that dominated all aspects of New Zealand life for seven years

Jordan Hamel

The Home Front this energeticA fresh new look at a young nation at war The Great War is now typically regarded as senseless and futile, but most New Zealanders at the time considered it to be a war to preserve security and freedoms, to punish an aggressive enemy and to win a better world. Yet the war years proved a tumultuous time, and bitterness and animosities ran alongside idealism and sacrifice. Families were broken up as soldiers departed. Civil liberties were curtailed as