Notes

Table of contents includes: How we know about the past -- Old-time Maori wars -- The musket wars -- Early clashes between Maori and Pakeha -- Wairau 1843 and the war in the north 1845-46 -- War in Taranaki, Waikato and the Bay of Plenty 1860-72 -- A new kind of war: guerrilla warfare -- The Boer War 1899-1902 -- The First World War 1914-18: the Great War -- The Second World War 1939-45 -- After the Second World War -- The Korean War 1950-53 -- The Vietnam War 1959-75 -- Keeping the peace -- Cadets and territorials -- Some peacemakers and pacifists Summary: Follows the involvement of New Zealanders in warfare, from pre-European tribal warfare to the musket wars, from the New Zealand wars to the Boer War, right up to conflict in Vietnam and peacekeeping in the Pacific