The Bookman Graham
Beattie will be talking to Mark Sainsbury about the new edition of
Christopher Pugsley's Te Hokowhitu a Tu: The Maori Pioneer Battalion in the
First World War on
Radio Live this Saturday, Anzac Day morning.
You can
also listen to Christopher Pugsley's brilliant account of the Gallipoli
campaign in last week's interview on Radio New Zealand's Saturday Morning
show here.
Historian
Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Christopher Pugsley is also the author
of Gallipoli: The New Zealand Story (also
a Libro International book), a brilliant and moving account of this
defining campaign of the First World War, told through the eyes of those who
fought and died in the unsuccessful effort to seize the Dardanelles from
Turkey.