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New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War II, The

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Men-at-Arms - World War II - Allies

Last Stocked on 8/10/2024

Product Info

Title
New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War II, The
Publisher
Category
Author
Wayne Stack, Barry O'Sullivan
Publish Year
2013
Pages
48
Dimensions
7x10x.2"
NKG Part #
2147487451
MFG. Part #
OSPMAA486
Type
Softcover
Series
MAA486

Description

In 1939 more than 140,000 New Zealanders enlisted to fight overseas during World War II. Of these, 104,000 served in the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Initially thrown into the doomed campaign to halt the German blitzkrieg on Greece and Crete (1941), the division was rebuilt under the leadership of MajGen Sir Bernard Freyberg, and became the elite corps within Montgomery’s Eighth Army in the desert. After playing a vital role in the victory at El Alamein (1942) the ‘Kiwis’ were the vanguard of the pursuit to Tunisia. In 1943–45 the division was heavily engaged in the Italian mountains, especially at Cassino (1944); it ended the war in Trieste. Meanwhile, a smaller NZ force supported US forces against the Japanese in the Solomons and New Guinea (1942–44). Fully illustrated with specially commissioned color plates, this is the story of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force’s vital contribution to Allied victory in World War II.