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| Shopify Unique ID: | 10562210562340 |
| Trademe Reference: | PR1452 (9) |
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Description
ON ACTIVE SERVICE...: 5177 O.R. Gatman 2 NZEF September 1939-November 1941
edited by Martyn Thompson
DESCRIPTION
ISBN: 0582542014
Format: large hardcover with dust jacket
Published: Addison Wesley Longman 1999
Size (mm): 310 w x 225 h x 20 d
Pages: 128
SKU: A4/2606/0365/KXXX
ABOUT
A compact wartime memoir built from the surviving papers and recollections of O.R. Gatman, a New Zealand soldier who served with the 2nd NZEF in the early years of the Second World War.
The book traces his journey from mobilisation through training, embarkation, and deployment to the Middle East, capturing the routines, frustrations, and sudden dangers of a soldier’s life far from home. Thompson’s editing preserves Gatman’s straightforward voice—letters, diary fragments, and commentary—creating a clear, ground level picture of the campaigns and conditions faced by New Zealand troops before the desert war reached its height.
Illustrated throughout with monochrome and colour images.
CONDITION
Excellent with light wear on dust jacket and page edges, name stamp on end paper, pages as new.
IMAGES
Are of the actual item and depict all need to know detail.
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