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Stevan Eldred-GriggStevan Eldred-Grigg

Stevan Eldred-Grigg is a Canterbury-based historian and novelist. He has written ten novels and eleven history books, the most recent being Phoney Wars: New Zealand Society in the Second World War. He has just been awarded the 2019 Janet Frame Literary Trust Award.

The case for NZ joining WWII, reassessed

1 September 2019 by Stevan Eldred-Grigg

Eighty years ago, New Zealand declared war on Germany. We seem to take it for granted, most of us, that we needed to join the horrific struggle of the second world war. But the the reasoning may not have stacked up, writes historian Stevan Eldred-Grigg. On 1 September 1939, Hitler ordered his tanks, warplanes and … Read more

Categories Featured, Society Tags History, hitler, Second World War

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