Full Description
This collection of writings stands as an important reflection on the ways in which New Zealanders remember their past - be it through a poem, a waiata, a family photograph, a painting, a half-recalled history lesson, a parade, or a name on a plaque in a small town. These original, insightful essays by a raft of historians, writers, and other prominent figures reflect on various forms of remembering and remembering, what we have cherished and valued, forgotten and ignored, constructed and reframed.
Contents
Introduction; John Campbell, Cecil Bernard Carrington, of Awakino; John R. Broughton, Te Ao o Tumatauenga: A Theatre of War; Jane Hurley, Gallipoli: Not Dead Yet, But a Prisoner in Turkey; Monty Soutar, Kua Whewehe Matou!: Breaking up the Maori Contingent and the ordering home of four of its officers; Christopher Pugsley, Gallipoli Footprints; Charles Ferrall, Maurice Shadbolt's Gallipoli Myth; Anna Rogers, Fanny's War; David Grant, Mark Briggs: Absolutism and the Price of Dissent; Paul Diamond, 'I Discovered a Scandal and Mr Mackay Shot Me': Retelling Charles Mackay and D'Arcy Cresswell's First World War; Redmer Yska, The First World War and Truth; John Priestley, Waves of War; Simon During, The Sins; Dave Armstrong, King and Country - a dramatic journey through the First World War; C.K. Stead, The First World War - Close up from a Distance; Jenny Haworth, Behind the Twisted Wire: Studies of First World War Art; Sandy Callister, 'Could be Father in a Lemon Squeezer Hat?': the Long Shadow of War; John Horrocks, Memorials and Medals: Pinning on the Past like a Decoration; Jock Phillips, Lest We Forget - Remembering, and Forgetting, New Zealand's First World War; Jane Tolerton, The Blood and the Bones; Hamish Clayton, You Can Only Imagine
