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From emergency to confrontation : the New Zealand armed forces in Southeast Asia, 1949-1966 / Christopher Pugsley.
LIBRA DS597 .P85 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pugsley, Christopher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History, Military.
- History.
- Malaya--History--Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960--Participation, Australian--New Zealand.
- Malaya.
- Southeast Asia--History, Military.
- Southeast Asia.
- New Zealand.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 528 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- This is a story of New Zealand's involvement in two forgotten wars as seen through the personal accounts of New Zealanders, both men and women who were there. It is an unknown story of New Zealand's first significant contact with Asia and one which shaped New Zealand's understanding, as well as shaping the structure and ethos of the New Zealand Armed Forces for the last half of the 20th Century.
- Notes:
- "Published in association with the Ministry for Culture and Heritage."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195584538
- OCLC:
- 51840243
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