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Military tales of old Taranaki / Murray Moorhead.

Title: Military tales of old Taranaki / Murray Moorhead.
Author: Moorhead, Murray.
Publication: New Plymouth, N.Z. : Zenith, c2005.

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Description

v, 203 p.; 25 cm.

Subject

Genre/Form

Anecdotes
History
Military history

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

History in coloured silks -- All for a scrap of red rag -- The myth of Marsland Hill -- A godsend for a captain in trouble? -- The 'red' in the thin red line -- Men who died in lonely places -- While all slept safe abed -- My name is Tommy Atkins -- The flight of the 1500 -- Drama at dawn -- Just one dead sergeant -- Kipling would have approved -- Bull's wool and bull's-eyes -- Hero or hothead? -- The face of the enemy -- 'Gorilla' in the bush -- Heroes' day -- A short walk to Te Arei -- Takes of a frontier outpost -- More dangerous than a snake? -- A story the stone doesn't tell -- Hero's welcome for 'Kerry Bull' -- From goldfields to garrisons -- Runaway -- Not quite Rorke's Drift -- A haven of Bacchus -- From the humdrum to the heady -- Watchkeepers of the plains -- Thereby hangs a confusing tale -- The hunt for Paddy -- The regiment was here.

ISBN

1877365203 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2005432080

OCLC

64097753

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library