Links About New Zealand's Italian Campaign

The following links may be useful to you in discovering more about New Zealand's war in Italy, and in WWII

Online Books

•  New Zealand Electronic Text Centre - Official History of the Second World War Series, which include the following titles of greatest interest:

•  Italy Volume One - The Sangro To Cassino, by Neville Crompton Phillips

•  Italy Volume Two - From Cassino to Trieste, by Robin Langford Kay

•  18 Battalion and Armoured Regiment, by William Denham Dawson

•  19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment, by D.W. Sinclair

•  20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment, by W.E. Murphy

•  21 Battalion, by Joseph F. Cody

•  22 Battalion, by Jim H. Henderson

•  23 Battalion, by Lt. Col. Angus Ross

•  24 Battalion, by Randall Mathews Burdon

•  25 Battalion, by Edward Puttick

•  26 Battalion, by Frazer D. Norton

•  27 (Machine Gun) Battalion, by Robin Langford Kay

•  28 (Maori) Battalion, by Joseph F. Cody

•  4th and 6th Reserve mechanical Transport Companies, by Jim H. Henderson

•  Divisional Cavalry, by R.J.M. Loughnan

•  Divisional Signals, by Major C. Allan Borman

• Journey Towards Christmas, by Stephen Peter Llewellyn

•  Medical Units of 2NZEF in Middle East and Italy, by J.B. McKinney

•  New Zealand Engineers, Middle East, by Joseph F. Cody

•  New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy by Dr. Thomas Duncan MacGregor Scott

•  New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Volume III) by H.L. Thompson

•  Petrol Company, by Arthur Leon Nelson Kidson

Discussion Forums

•  Wings Over New Zealand Forum - my own renowned forum with RNZAF, Army and Navy sections

•  World War 2 Talk - an online forum with a section on Italy, with actual veterans and experts

•  Militaria New Zealand

Websites:

•  Nga Toa - Patrick Bronte's site on Kiwi Veterans

Films and Television Presentations You Can Watch Online

•  The Years Back - The Italian Campaign (via NZ On Screen - highly recommended)

•  Tama Tū  (Short film via NZ On Screen - highly recommended)

•  Kiwi Nightmares - the Battles of Monte Cassino (Documentary via Youtube)

•  The Hidden Truth of WWII: Monte Cassino (Documentary via Youtube)

•  Monte Cassino- The Soldiers Story (Documentary via Youtube)

 

Further Reading About New Zealand's Italian Campaign

The following books may be useful to you in learning more about New Zealand's war in Italy

Autobiographies

•  Up The Blue by Roger Smith (2000)

•  Cassino to Trieste: A Soldier's Story by E.B. "Scotch" Paterson (2004)

•  Kiwis On Tour In Egypt and Italy by A.S. Helm (1948)

•  One More River by Gordon Slatter (1995)

•  Whistle As You Go - The Story of the Kiwi Concert Party by Terry Vaughn

•  From North Africa to The Arakan by Alan Peart DFC

 

Biographies

•  Freyburg: Churchill's Salamander by Laurie Barber and John Tonkin-Covell (1989)

•  Freyburg VC - The Man by Major-General W.G. Stevens (1965)

 

History Books

•  Kiwi Down The Strada by Leslie Hobbs, photos by George F. Kaye, and cartoons by Neville Colvin (1965)

•  The Battles of Monte Cassino: Then And Now by Jeffrey Plowman and Perry Rowe (2011)

•  North From Taranto - New Zealanders and the Liberation of Italy 1943-45, by John Crawford (1994)

•  The Twenty Fourth New Zealand Infantry Battalion: A Pictorial History, by F.L. Phillips and N.R. Gilmour (1980)

•  The Story of Maori Battalion, by Wira Gardiner (1992)

•  39/34 Heavy Mortar Battery, 7th Anti-Tank Regiment, 2NZEF in Italy 1944, by R.D. Munro (1990)

•  4th New Zealand Armoured Brigade in Italy, by Jeffrey Plowman and M. Thomas (c.2000)

•  One More River: The Final Campaign of the Second New Zealand Division in Italy, by Gordon Slatter (1995)

•  A Fair Sort of Battering, New Zealanders Remember The Italian Campaign, edited by Megan Hutching (2004)

•  Cassino: New Zealand Soldiers in the Battle For Italy, by T. Williams (2002)

•  Italian Odyssey: New Zealanders in the Battle for Italy, by Matthew Wright (2003)

•  To The Gateways Of Florence: New Zealand Forces in Tuscany 1944, edited by Stefano Fusi (2011)

•  Lost Opportunity At Cassino by Ron Crosby (2007)