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Ake ake kia kaha e! = forever brave! : B Company 28 (Māori) Battalion 1939-1945 /

Gardiner, Wira, 1943-

Ake ake kia kaha e! = forever brave! : B Company 28 (Māori) Battalion 1939-1945 / Wira Gardiner. - Auckland, New Zealand : David Bateman, 2019. - 488 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Before the war -- For God for King and for country -- In defence of 'Mother England' -- Greece, 1941 -- The battle for Crete -- The home front -- North Africa -- Syria and Minqar Qaim -- El Mreir and Munassib -- El Alamein -- Medenine and Tebaga Gap -- Takrouna : a soldier's battle -- The Italian campaign -- Cassino -- Onwards to Florence -- The Rimini battles -- Faenza -- The River battles -- Aftermath and return home -- Rehabilitation -- Last man standing -- Roll of honour -- Maps of key battles -- Soldiers of B Company.

"28 Māori Battalion was a front line infantry unit that was part of 2nd New Zealand Division that fought in the Second World War. It was completely voluntary and at any one time 700-750 men were in the Battalion, organised across four rifle companies, A, B, C and D, and a Headquarters company. The four rifle companies were organised along tribal lines and this book looks at the war from the perspective of B company, which drew its members mainly from the Te Arawa and Mataatua confederations of tribes, but from Tauranga Moana, Coromandel, Waikato and King Country. As well as telling the stories of the significant campaigns that 28 (Māori) Battalion were involved with, in Greece and Crete, North Africa and Italy"--Just jacket.

9781869539856 1869539850

019426588 Uk


New Zealand. Army. Battalion, 28 --History.


World War (1939-1945)


World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Maori.
World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--Battalion, 28th.--New Zealand
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Greece.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Africa, North.
Maori (New Zealand people).
Kōrero nehe.
Te Pakanga Tuarua o Te Ao.
Kuia.
Hōia.


New Zealand.

D767.851 / .G373 2019

369.293
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