Fernleaf Cairo

Alex Hedley (Autor)

Megan Hutching (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

290 Seiten

2009
HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) (Verlag)
978-1-86950-755-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Its call sign was Fernleaf Cairo, and between 1939 and 1946, around 76,000 Kiwis of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force passed through Maadi Camp. Its call sign was Fernleaf Cairo, and between 1939 and 1946, around 76,000 Kiwis of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force passed through Maadi Camp. Around 17 kilometres south of Cairo, the camp appeared almost overnight, as this country's permanent overseas base during the Second World War. By 1945 the camp had tar-sealed roads, two cinemas, an open-air amphitheatre, canteens, bars, chapels, sports fields, a meat-pie and ice-cream factory, and - thanks to General Bernard Freyberg - swimming baths. Egypt was a source of boundless amazement, sly humour and some disgust to the New Zealanders, an experience which left its mark, both on our language - taking a shufti - and more tangibly, the Maadi Rowing Cup. With unpublished images and first-hand accounts, Fernleaf Cairo offers a fascinating insight into the unlikely bond young New Zealanders forged with the people and city of Cairo, including their many highly colourful experiences on leave.

Autor

Eminent military oral historian Megan Hutching (editor of hour long running and highly successful oral history series) and Alex Hedley, representative of the younger generation of Kiwis who flock to Gallipoli in their thousands each year as an emotional pilgrimage have written this book together.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2009
• Verlagsort: Auckland
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 155 x 235 mm
• Gewicht: 479 g
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 1-86950-755-X / 186950755X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-86950-755-8 / 9781869507558
• Zustand: Neuware