Taking The Ridge – Anzacs and Germans at the Battle of Messines 1917

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ISBN: 9780473584610
Title: Taking The Ridge – Anzacs and Germans at the Battle of Messines 1917
Author: MCNEILL JEFFREY

Taking the Ridge tells a fresh story of the iconic First World War Battle of Messines 1917 in which a fifth of all New Zealand’s soldiers who served overseas would have somehow participated. Largely overlooked today, this was New Zealand’s battle of the war. But victory was not as complete as claimed. Anzac losses were far from light and the afternoon’s gains hung in the balance. Men and their generals were all tested. Taking the Ridge provides the definitive account of the New Zealand and Australian 3rd and 4th divisions’ actions as well as those of the German divisions opposite in that battle and its aftermath at La Basse-Ville and Passchendaele in a year of grim trench warfare.

Author Biography:
Jeff McNeill is an acknowledged authority on the 1917 Battle of Messines in both Belgium and New Zealand. He has guided battlefield tours and given public and academic presentations as a member of the New Zealand Pilgrimage Trust. With his training as a geographer and his expertise in modern mapping technologies, he is able to integrate the social and spatial dimensions so as to make sense of a highly complex military action. A Senior Lecturer in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, McNeill holds a PhD in Politics, an MA(Hons) in Geography and a Master of Public Policy awarded with Distinction.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03/04/2022
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