{"product_id":"2026100011508-secondhand-a-bloody-road-home-world-war-two-and-new-zealands-heroic-second-division","title":"A Bloody Road Home: World War Two And New Zealand's Heroic Second Division","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: sticker on the spine of the dj; lib markings on endpapers, otherwise clean and bright text. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew 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.\n\nPugsley, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50572492308699,"sku":"2026100011508-SECONDHAND","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/aa6bb28a-7cd4-457b-bc33-51d2d3792e77.png?v=1791166631","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100011508-secondhand-a-bloody-road-home-world-war-two-and-new-zealands-heroic-second-division","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}