Ron Palenski: 4 books
by Ron Palenski
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Rugby is New Zealand's national sport. From the grand tour by the 1888 Natives to the upcoming 2015 World Cup, from games in the North African desert in the Second World War to matches behind barbed wire during the 1981 Springbok tour, from grassroots club rugby to heaving crowds outside Eden Park,...
by Ron Palenski
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Examining the development of a sense of national identity in a British colony, this highly authoritative work is a valuable addition to the literature in New Zealand. By looking at the onset of home-grown shipping, railway, and telegraph networks as well as at the Maori and kiwi experiences, not to...
by Ron Palenski
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The history behind the major battlefields in which New Zealand soldiers fought
Men of Valour
New Zealand and the Battle for Crete
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In May of 1941 New Zealand?s citizen soldiers, not long removed from their day jobs, were thrust into a type of fighting the world had not seen before: a land force against an airborne invasion. It was man against machines. In many ways, Crete became in the Second World War what Gallipoli had been...