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Cook, Chris

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“…It looked like a scene from a 'Sheikh story' of the films. 40 Martyn Uren made similar filmic comparisons, stating that the Sinai "seemed to me to be exactly what I had always imagined a real desert would look like. It is the desert of the motionpicture world -the desert of Beau Geste."…”

Section: The Desertmentioning

confidence: 80%

“…1 Sitting on her iron framed bed, Lee's surroundings were spartan -"concrete walls and floor with two iron beds…a little table and a huge cupboard of a wardrobe." 2 As she wrote to Frederick and Kate Lee of Palmerston North, Lee might have looked out the window (covered only when necessary with waxed canvas -there was no glass at the hospital) and seen the barbed wire that "goes right round the place", and the seemingly unending desert that "stretches away beyond it". Perhaps she compared this vast sandy waste in her mind with the green farmland of the Manawatu plains back home.…”

Section: Historiography and Sourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Stephanie Lee's collection at AWMM is under her married name, Vanoosten. 2 Ibid. During the war there were four NZGH's in the Middle East, though 4 NZGH was short-lived.…”

Section: Historiography and Sourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Numerous authors, including Karen Harvey, Janet Hoskins and Richard Grassby, have emphasised the use of material culture as a framework for historical enquiry, and John Schofield et al specifically highlight the importance of reflecting "on…the materiality of events which have shaped the modern world." 40 Frank Trentmann notes that materiality and consumption have "been shaped by states and empires, through war and taxes and the often violent transplantations of people and goods from one part of the world to another." 41 Given that this thesis is concerned both with war and the transplantations of people that war involves, Trentmann's observations show that considering materiality is especially pertinent.…”

Section: Historiography and Sourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…And all throughout the region…the geography looked so rugged, so foreign, and occasionally so beautiful. 2 Fantauzzo's statement is equally true of soldiers experiencing the Middle East in the Second World War. Indeed, as seen from the list of countries above, soldiers in the Second World War encountered an even greater range of places, each imbued with its own history and meaning.…”

Section: The Middle Eastmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Half a World Away: New Zealanders in the Middle East during the Second World War

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<p>New Zealand’s longest and most important campaign of the Second World War was in the Middle East. When New Zealand’s Middle Eastern war is discussed, the focus is usually on combat and the lives of New Zealanders on the battlefield. The limited discussion of life behind the lines is dominated by a picture of racism, drunkenness and debauchery with its focal point in Cairo. This thesis uses primary sources, including letters, diaries, photographs and soldier publications, and focusses on how New Zealanders saw the Middle East through the lenses of place, materiality and people. It assesses how New Zealanders experienced the Middle East as a series of geographic and imagined places, the material things they chose to acquire in those places, and the relationships they formed with the diverse range of people they encountered. An examination of these three topics reveals a complex and rich picture of respect and loathing, delight and disgust, wonder and disillusionment. Such a picture shows that the one-dimensional understanding of racism and poor behaviour is an entirely inadequate representation of New Zealanders’ Middle Eastern war, a war that would take them to Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Iran and Iraq. In moving beyond this conventional understanding, this thesis hopes to expand the picture of New Zealand’s long relationship with the Middle East – a relationship that stretches from the beaches of Gallipoli in 1915 to the mountains of Afghanistan in the present day.</p>

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Section: The Desertmentioning

confidence: 80%

Section: Historiography and Sourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Stephanie Lee's collection at AWMM is under her married name, Vanoosten. 2 Ibid. During the war there were four NZGH's in the Middle East, though 4 NZGH was short-lived.…”

Section: Historiography and Sourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Historiography and Sourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Middle Eastmentioning

confidence: 99%

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