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The Home Front- New Zealand Society and the War Effort, 1914-1919 | By Steven Loveridge and James Watson

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In The Home Front, Steven Loveridge and James Watson offer a compelling account of how a small and developing country, New Zealand, confronted the complex questions and brutal realities of the First World 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 the government wielded unprecedented powers. Divisive issues, economic volatility and a rising death toll all threatened resolve. Finally, in the last weeks of the war, a devastating influenza pandemic arrived in New Zealand and extracted a deadly toll. In The Home Front Steven Loveridge and James Watson offer a compelling account of how a small and developing country confronted the complex questions and brutal realities of a world war.

ISBN: 9780995100183
Size: 25.5 x 19.5 x 3.5 cm
Page: 517
Format: Hardback
Weight: 1.465kg

ISBN: 9780995100183
Size: 25.5 x 19.5 x 3.5 cm
Page: 517
Format: Hardback

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