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Glyn Harper is Professor of War Studies at Massey University and until mid-2011 was the director of its Centre of Defence and Securities Studies. A former teacher, he joined the Australian Army in 1988 and after eight years transferred to the New Zealand Army, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was the army’s official historian for the deployment to East Timor, and his seventeen books include studies of the Passchendaele massacre, the Second Battle of the Somme and New Zealand and the Victoria Cross. His most recent publications are Dark Journey: Three Key New Zealand Battles of the Western Front and Images of War: World War One: A Photographic Record of New Zealanders at War 1914–1918. He led the production of a definitive history in nine volumes of the New Zealand involvement in WW1, in time for the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign in 2015.

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Glyn Harper

Glyn Harper

Letters From Gallipoli: New Zealand Soldiers Write Home