Ormond e burton (2 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No date. This is a follow on from the NZ Division pamphlet given away to NZ soldiers after armistice. In 1917 Major General Sir Andrew Russell asked Burton to write a short account of the New Zealand Division in the war. The monograph was published as Our little bit and given to every serviceman at the armistice. It was extended and about a year later published as The New Zealand Division.(Te Ara) Some minor light foxing to the prelims and a little edge wear.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. This copy feels unread and has no faults. The jacket has a repair to a short closed tear 464pp 4to. John H. Gray (Edited by), Christopher Pugsley (Foreword by) "It is appropriate that the imminent centenary of the start of World War l should be marked by publishing in one volume the work of the greatest New Zealand front-line writer about that war. Ormond Edward Burton lived life at an uncompromising extreme, whether as a soldier - when 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 Christian pacifist. In both capacities, he was widely respected.In 1935 Ormond Burton -that rare being, a man of action and a man of letters- wrote a broader volume entitled The Silent Division - New Zealanders at the Front, 1914 - 1919. It is a compelling mix of the abstract and the lyrical in style. It is all written in the third person.Much later, in about 1968, he wrote an autobiography entitled A Rich Old Man, which was never published. Part ll of that is Concerning One Man's War - 1914 - 1919 which in the present volume first sees the light of day in its entirety.…