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Love in Time of War by Deborah Montgomerie
Love in Time of War by Deborah Montgomerie
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Love in Time of War

Letter writing in the Second World War
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Using letters between soldiers and their loved ones, parents, sweethearts, wives or children, this book traces the emotional and psychological ways by which New Zealanders made sense of the upheavals of war. It shows movingly and graphically that NZ soldiers were not inarticulate and insensitive 'hard men' but kept their sense of life before and after the war by the messages of love, hope and longing that they sent back home. This is the first title in the new series AUP Studies in Cultural and Social History edited by Caroline Daley and Deborah Montgomerie, a series of richly illustrated medium-length books, reflecting New Zealand's distinctive and sometimes quirky

Author Biography:

Deborah Montgomerie is a lecturer in history at the University of Auckland. She is the author of the very successful The Women's War (AUP, 2001) and co-editor of The Gendered Kiwi (AUP, 1999).
Release date NZ
May 1st, 2005
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
New Zealand
Illustrations
illustrations
Imprint
Auckland University Press
Pages
150
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Dimensions
200x212x5
ISBN-13
9781869403362
Product ID
1638059

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