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Phoney Wars

- New Zealand Society in the Second World War
Af: Stevan Eldred-Grigg Engelsk Paperback

Phoney Wars

- New Zealand Society in the Second World War
Af: Stevan Eldred-Grigg Engelsk Paperback
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This book looks at the lives of New Zealanders during the greatest armed struggle the world has ever seen: the Second World War. It is not a political, economic or military history; rather it explores what life was like during the war years for ordinary people living under the New Zealand flag. It questions the war as a story of good against bad. All readers know that the Axis powers behaved ruthlessly, but how many are aware of the brutality of the Allied powers in bombing and starving enemy towns and cities? New Zealand colluded in and even carried out such brutal aggressions. Were we, in going to war, really on the side of the angels? Contrary to the propaganda of the time -- and subsequent memory -- going to war did not unite New Zealanders: it divided them, often bitterly. People disagreed over whether or not we should fight, what we were fighting for and why, who was fighting, who was paying, and who was dying. In this provocative and moving book, Stevan and Hugh Eldred-Grigg explore New Zealanders hopes and fears, beliefs and superstitions, shortages and affluence, rationing and greed, hysteria and humour, violence and kindness, malevolence and generosity, to argue that New Zealand need not have involved itself in the war at all.
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This book looks at the lives of New Zealanders during the greatest armed struggle the world has ever seen: the Second World War. It is not a political, economic or military history; rather it explores what life was like during the war years for ordinary people living under the New Zealand flag. It questions the war as a story of good against bad. All readers know that the Axis powers behaved ruthlessly, but how many are aware of the brutality of the Allied powers in bombing and starving enemy towns and cities? New Zealand colluded in and even carried out such brutal aggressions. Were we, in going to war, really on the side of the angels? Contrary to the propaganda of the time -- and subsequent memory -- going to war did not unite New Zealanders: it divided them, often bitterly. People disagreed over whether or not we should fight, what we were fighting for and why, who was fighting, who was paying, and who was dying. In this provocative and moving book, Stevan and Hugh Eldred-Grigg explore New Zealanders hopes and fears, beliefs and superstitions, shortages and affluence, rationing and greed, hysteria and humour, violence and kindness, malevolence and generosity, to argue that New Zealand need not have involved itself in the war at all.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 424
ISBN-13: 9780947522230
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0947522239
Kategori: Social- & Kulturhistorie
Udg. Dato: 17 okt 2017
Længde: 29mm
Bredde: 240mm
Højde: 171mm
Forlag: Otago University Press
Oplagsdato: 17 okt 2017
Forfatter(e): Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Forfatter(e) Stevan Eldred-Grigg

Kategori Social- & Kulturhistorie

ISBN-13 9780947522230

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 424

Udgave

Længde 29mm

Bredde 240mm

Højde 171mm

Udg. Dato 17 okt 2017

Oplagsdato 17 okt 2017

Forlag Otago University Press

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