This book, based on extensive new research, examines the military forces of the British Army which effectively faced the threat of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars on Ireland.
Although comparatively small in number, the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War I earned an elite reputation on the Western Front, and the New Zealanders' war effort was a defining moment in their national history and sense of identity. The statistics are astonishing: of the total population of New Zealand of 1 million, no fewer than 100, 000 men enlisted - that is one in every five men in the country, and of those, 18, 000 men were k...
In 1939, New Zealand was far less well prepared for war than it had been in 1914. Nevertheless, more than 140, 000 New Zealanders - nearly 9 per cent of the dominion's total population - enlisted to fight overseas 'for King and Country' during World War II. Of these, 104, 000 served in the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, whose major component became 2nd NZ Infantry Division, by 1944 this was the largest division in the British and Comm...
