TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tolerton,Jane
ED  - World War One Oral History Archive (Victoria University of Wellington),
TI  - An awfully big adventure: New Zealand World War One veterans tell their stories 
SN  - 9780143568490 (pbk.) :
U1  - 940.48193 23
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Army
KW  - Expeditionary Force
KW  - History
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Personal narratives, New Zealand
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Biography
N2  - What was it like to be a New Zealand soldier in the First World War? What impact did the war have on those who returned? Let them tell you. An Awfully Big Adventure traces the reminiscences and reflections of 80 veterans interviewed for the World War One Oral History Archive. Respected journalist Jane Tolerton revisits the interviews and sets pieces in a chronology for 21st-century readers to follow the progress and human experience of the war - in the words of those who were there. The men relive their time abroad, offering intimate, private moments as well as the unvarnished realities of life at the front. A century on, their voices are vivid, strong and direct, and often humorous. Deeply affecting and absorbing, An Awfully Big Adventure is an important historical memoir that reads as if it all happened yesterday
ER  -