Author(s): Don Donovan

NZ History

With each passing year the horrors of the first world war fade further from collective memory, but the popularity of annual ANZAC Day ceremonies is as strong as ever. This, along with the dignified respect with which the body of the Unknown Soldier was returned in 2004 to New Zealand, shows that people wish to remember those New Zealanders and Australians who went off to fight and - in many cases - did not return. This compact and thoughtful gift book is a collection of evocative photographs of men and women who served. Riding camels, washing clothes, cooking, sharing a cigarette, stumbling from the slopes of Gallipoli - these fleeting images of an older generation at war remind us of the human debt that was paid by so many and of the need for peace today. Poignant quotations accompany the images.