Synopsis:
It was appropriate that the centenary of the start of World War l should be marked by publishing, in one volume, two works of the greatest New Zealand front-line writer about that war, twice decorated and thrice wounded.
Ormond Edward Burton lived life at an uncompromising extreme, whether as a soldier – when, as recounted in this book, he more than once voluntarily went to considerable lengths to put himself in harm’s way, as he saw it in his unit’s interests - or later as a clergyman and Christian pacifist.
Published: Available Now
Price: $75.00
Size: 180mm x 240mm
Extent: 416 Pages
Illustrations: 50 Photos, 22 Maps
Binding: Cased & Dust Jacketed
ISBN: 978-0-9876675-4-0
It was appropriate that the centenary of the start of World War l should be marked by publishing, in one volume, two works of the greatest New Zealand front-line writer about that war, twice decorated and thrice wounded.
Ormond Edward Burton lived life at an uncompromising extreme, whether as a soldier – when, as recounted in this book, he more than once voluntarily went to considerable lengths to put himself in harm’s way, as he saw it in his unit’s interests - or later as a clergyman and Christian pacifist.
Published: Available Now
Price: $75.00
Size: 180mm x 240mm
Extent: 416 Pages
Illustrations: 50 Photos, 22 Maps
Binding: Cased & Dust Jacketed
ISBN: 978-0-9876675-4-0
