10 September 2003

Second World War Official Histories online

The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC) recently embarked on a major project to digitalise the 50 volumes of the Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45.

The first five volumes chosen for the pilot project are now available online:

Prisoners of War
www.nzetc.org/etexts/WH2Pris.html

The Relief of Tobruk
www.nzetc.org/etexts/WH2Tobr.html

Battle for Egypt
www.nzetc.org/etexts/WH2Egyp.html

28 (Maori) Battalion
www.nzetc.org/etexts/WH2Maor.html

The Pacific
www.nzetc.org/etexts/WH2Paci.html

 
For more information about this project, please visit:

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
www.nzetc.org/projects/wh2/index.html
 

Related Links:

History of the War History Branch
www.mch.govt.nz/History/About

Sir Howard Kippenberger Editor-in-Chief
www.dnzb.govt.nz