A Bloody Road Home: World War Two And New Zealand's Heroic Second Division
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Condition remarks: sticker on the spine of the dj; lib markings on endpapers, otherwise clean and bright text.
Few nations punched above their weight in the Second World War quite like New Zealand, and A Bloody Road Home chronicles the extraordinary odyssey of the 2nd New Zealand Division — one of the most decorated and battle-hardened fighting forces the Allied powers ever fielded. From the catastrophic retreats of Greece and Crete to the grinding desert campaigns of North Africa and the blood-soaked advances up the Italian peninsula, Christopher Pugsley maps the full arc of a division that was forged in defeat and tempered into a weapon of remarkable resilience and skill. Drawing on official records, diaries, and the firsthand testimonies of the men who served, Pugsley reconstructs the chaos and courage of combat with a soldier's eye for detail and a historian's command of the broader strategic picture. Pugsley, one of New Zealand's foremost military historians, writes with a rare combination of scholarly rigour and narrative urgency, ensuring that the mud, blood, and camaraderie of the 2nd Division's campaigns are rendered with vivid, unflinching clarity. A Bloody Road Home is more than a campaign history — it is a meditation on national identity, sacrifice, and the bond forged between men under fire. Praised as a story worth telling and deserving to be read by all New Zealanders, this landmark work asks what it truly cost a small island nation to play its part in the greatest conflict the world has ever seen — and whether that cost was ever fully reckoned.
Author: Christopher Pugsley
Format: Hardback
Published: 2014, Penguin
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Condition remarks: sticker on the spine of the dj; lib markings on endpapers, otherwise clean and bright text.
Few nations punched above their weight in the Second World War quite like New Zealand, and A Bloody Road Home chronicles the extraordinary odyssey of the 2nd New Zealand Division — one of the most decorated and battle-hardened fighting forces the Allied powers ever fielded. From the catastrophic retreats of Greece and Crete to the grinding desert campaigns of North Africa and the blood-soaked advances up the Italian peninsula, Christopher Pugsley maps the full arc of a division that was forged in defeat and tempered into a weapon of remarkable resilience and skill. Drawing on official records, diaries, and the firsthand testimonies of the men who served, Pugsley reconstructs the chaos and courage of combat with a soldier's eye for detail and a historian's command of the broader strategic picture. Pugsley, one of New Zealand's foremost military historians, writes with a rare combination of scholarly rigour and narrative urgency, ensuring that the mud, blood, and camaraderie of the 2nd Division's campaigns are rendered with vivid, unflinching clarity. A Bloody Road Home is more than a campaign history — it is a meditation on national identity, sacrifice, and the bond forged between men under fire. Praised as a story worth telling and deserving to be read by all New Zealanders, this landmark work asks what it truly cost a small island nation to play its part in the greatest conflict the world has ever seen — and whether that cost was ever fully reckoned.