New edition of classic history returns to print ahead of Anzac Day

The Anzac Experience: New Zealand, Australia and Empire in the First World War

Christopher Pugsley

Revised edition of much-praised history examines the Great War experience of New Zealand, Australia and Canada

‘One of the best works of Australasian military history I have ever read.’ 

– Allan Converse, The Journal of Military History

 

One hundred and ten years on from the Gallipoli campaign of 1915, a new era of wars in the eastern Mediterranean obliges us to consider the role of the military in human history. 

 

To understand how New Zealand and Australia first developed their response to global conflicts, The Anzac Experience is an important primer. This gripping book captures the evolution by trial and error of their respective armies, alongside that of Canada, from the Boer War in South Africa to involvement in the First World War. 

 

It tells the story of citizen soldiers becoming professional as they learned the lessons of Gallipoli and applied these to the Western Front — earning them the status of the fighting elite in the British armies in France. 

Richly illustrated with photographs and maps, The Anzac Experience blends social analysis and military history in a compelling combination. In its research and writing, Christopher Pugsley walked every New Zealand battlefield on Gallipoli and the Western Front. 

 

This revised edition features a new cover and updates to the text. 

 

The author

Christopher Pugsley is recognised among the first rank of military historians. A retired Lieutenant Colonel in the New Zealand Army, he was a lecturer in military studies in New Zealand and Australia, and retired in 2012 as a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Among his recent works are the fifth edition of Gallipoli: The New Zealand Story and Le Quesnoy 1918. He lives with his wife in Waikanae.

Publication: 1 April 2025  |  ISBN: 978-0-947506-00-1 | RRP $49.99

Paperback, 240 x 170 mm portrait, 356 pages, b&w

Oratia Books available through University of Hawai'i Press

Readers in North America and Asia can now purchase a selection of Oratia Books list through the University of Hawai'i Press.

Starting from their Spring 2019 catalogue, which released in April, University of Hawai'i Press has seven Oratia titles available across the U.S., Canada and East Asia:

12 Huia Birds – Julian Stokoe & Stacy Eyles
Favourite Māori Legends – A.W. Reed
Māori Weapons in Pre European New Zealand  – Jeff Evans
Māui — Sun Catcher – Tim Tipene & Zak Waipara
New Zealand Tattoo – Chris Hoult & Steve Forbes
Ngā Atua – Robyn Kahukiwa
Polynesian Navigation and the Discovery of New Zealand – Jeff Evans

More books will be listing in the Fall 2019 catalogue.

"We feel a natural affinity with the Pacific and Asian orientation of the University of Hawai'i Press and look forward to a long relationship as one of their publishing partners," commented Oratia Books publisher Peter Dowling.

To view or order, click here to go to the Oratia Books page on the University of Hawai'i Press website; and to email the Press, click here.

Ten more Libro books now available in North America

North American distributor Casemate-IPM has just released ten more of our books in their Spring-Summer 2015 catalogue.

Customers in the USA and Canada can order any of the following through Casemate-IPM:

Favourite Māori Legends   A.W. Reed

Like Them That Dream   Bronwyn Elsmore

Maori Weapons   Jeff Evans

Out on the Water   Tessa Duder

Snowy the Doganaut   Diego Albuquerque

Te Ara   Paul Tapsell & Krzysztof Pfeiffer

The Last Maopo   Tania Simpson

The New Zealand Wars   Matthew Wright

To the Gateways of Florence   Stefano Fusi (ed)  

Warrior Kids   Tim Tipene

To locate these and our other books available in North America, go to:

https://internationalpubmarket.presswarehouse.com/clients/orm/blurb.aspx

North American distribution kicks off through International Publishers Marketing

The first Libro International books are now available in the US and Canada with the beginning of our distribution partnership with International Publishers Marketing (IPM).

Based in Dulles, Virgina, IPM is a well-known distributor with strong channels to market through bookstores, libraries and academic institutions. We're delighted to be working with Jane Graf and her fine team at IPM.

Follow this link to see more: IPM - Libro International

IPM is starting with 12 of our titles in its Fall 2014/Winter 2015 catalogue, and will follow up with a further 10 in March 2015. Here's what's available now:

Holy Socks - Dawn McMillan and Philip Webb

Woolly Wally - Dawn McMillan and Ross Kinnaird

The Story of Sir Peter Blake - Tessa Duder
Bullies & Warriors - Tim Tipene
Kura Toa - Tim Tipene
Patu - Tim Tipene
He Puna Iti i te Ao Mārama - Pā Henare Tate
From Silence to Voice - Paola Della Valle
Polynesian Navigation and the Discovery of New Zealand - Jeff Evans
Waka Taua - Jeff Evans
The Musket Wars - Ron Crosby
The Treaty of Waitangi - Ross Calman

Backside goes Stateside!

Well-known New York publisher Dover Publications has acquired North American rights to our bestselling children’s book I Need a New Bum!

The deal, initiated at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013 and finalised recently, will see a North American edition released within the next year.

Dover will retitle the book I Need a New Butt! to ensure the right message gets across to North American readers.

Congratulations and thanks to author Dawn McMillan and illustrator Ross Kinnaird whose fine work grabbed the interest of Dover’s team.

We are delighted to be working with Dover to take this hilarious and popular book to US and Canadian readers.

Te Ara exhibition opens in Vancouver

Oratia launches new trilingual book featuring Musqueam alongside Māori and English

The exhibition Te Ara: Māori Pathways of Leadership, opens today in Vancouver, Canada, in the final stage of its world tour before returning to New Zealand in February 2014.

Featuring photographs by Krzysztof Pfeiffer taken over a five-year period, and curated by Paul Tapsell and Merata Kawharu, Te Ara is a visual survey of leadership in the Māori world – past, present and future. It premiered in Poland in 2010 and has since shown at major museums in the UK and Germany.

The exhibition is being hosted by the Musqueam Indian Band, the First Peoples of the Vancouver area, and is showing at the Musqueam Gallery in the British Columbian capital.

Accompanying the opening was the launch of the third edition of the exhibition book. Te Ara features photographs from the exhibition with extended text by Paul Tapsell reviewing

leadership and challenges for Māori today.

The book is believed to be the first featuring both Canadian and New Zealand indigenous languages, with a landmark Musqueam translation – one of very few texts in the language – alongside Te Reo Māori and English. Copies are available in Canada and New Zealand.

"Our conversation is indigenous to indigenous with the Musqueam, but it is a story to which everyone is invited to come along and listen in," said Tapsell, who is visiting Vancouver.           

Te Ara: Māori Pathways of Leadership will be at the Musqueam Gallery, 4000 Musqueam Avenue, Vancouver, until 28 February 2014.

Professor Paul Tapsell and Associate Professor Merata Kawharu teach in the Māori Studies department at the University of Otago, Dunedin; Krzysztof Pfeiffer is an internationally recognised photographer based in Auckland who has contributed to more than 35 books.

Read more in the Vancouver Sun

Te Ara: Māori Pathways of Leadership

Release Date: 9 August 2013  |  ISBN: 978-1-877514-60-9  |  RRP $21.99

Paperback, 210 x 297 mm landscape, 32 pages, colour

To arrange an interview, images, extracts or a review copy, contact:

Peter Dowling  027 614 8993   peter@oratiamedia.com

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