Further Resources
RNZRSA Historian Dr Stephen Clarke provides his favourite websites
and books relating to Passchendaele.
Books
General
 Lyn
Macdonald, They Called it Passchendaele (London: Michael Joseph,
1978)
In this groundbreaking piece of oral history, Macdonald lets over 600
participants speak for themselves.
 Robin
Prior and Trevor Wilson, Passchendaele: The Untold Story (London:
Yale University Press, 1996)
Widely acclaimed as the best account published to date, Prior and Wilson
provide a masterly account of the campaign, establishing what occurred,
what options were available, and who was responsible for the devastation.
 Nigel
Steele and Peter Hart, Passchendaele: The Sacrificial Ground
(Melbourne: Scribe, 2003)
Drawing on the archival holdings at the Imperial War Museum, Steele and
Hart provide a compelling account of the battle for Passchendaele from
grand strategy at the highest levels right down to the experience of the
ordinary infantrymen
New Zealand
 John
Crawford and Ian McGibbon (ed.), New Zealand’s Great War: New
Zealand, the Allies and the First World War (Auckland: Exisle, 2007)
The most comprehensive collection of articles ever published on all aspects
of New Zealand’s involvement in the First World War.
 Glyn
Harper, Massacre at Passchendaele: The New Zealand Story (Auckland:
HarperCollins, 2000)
This book did for Passchendaele what Pugsley did for Gallipoli two decades
earlier: re-discover the long-forgotten New Zealand story.
 Glyn
Harper, Dark Journey: Three key New Zealand battles of the Western
Front, (Auckland: HarperCollins, 2007)
Includes revised edition of Massacre at Passchendaele.
 Ian
McGibbon, New Zealand Battlefields and Memorials of the Western Front
(Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Essential for the kit bag of any New Zealander embarking on a pilgrimage
to the Western Front.
 Christopher
Pugsley, The ANZAC Experience: New Zealand, Australia and empire in
the First World War (Auckland: Reed, 2004)
This is a masterly synthesis of over 20 years’ research from our
best known military historian
 H.
Stewart, New Zealand Division, 1916–1919: A Popular History
based on Official Records (Wellington: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1921)
The official history of the campaign by Colonel Hugh Stewart.
Websites
Belgium
Flanders 1917 Commemorative Site for New Zealanders
www.flanders1917.info
This site aims to provide information for New Zealanders about the 90th
Commemorations of the Battles in Flanders in 1917, compiled by the Messines
Council, the Passchendaele organising committee, and Martin O'Connor,
a New Zealander who lives in Belgium.
In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres (Ieper)
www.inflandersfields.be
This site provides a variety of material relating to the First World War
and exhibitions at the museum, which is housed in the famous Cloth Hall
in the centre of Ypres.
Memorial Museum Passchendaele
www.passchendaele.be
The Passendaele Museum is at the Chateau in Zonnebeke and features exhibitions
relating to Passchendaele including a reconstruction of the "underground
war".
Last Post Association
www.lastpost.be
The Ypres (Ieper) organisation which has arranged the Last Post ceremony
every evening at the Menin Gate since 1927.
New Zealand
Passchendaele Project
www.aucklandmuseum.com
Auckland War Memorial Museum is undertaking Project Passchendaele
as an online campaign seeking photographs, letters, personal papers and
reminiscences owned by descendants of those killed or wounded in the battle.
There is also a list of those New Zealanders who died at Passchendaele
from the Museum's online Cenotaph Database.
From Papanui to Passchendaele
www.pap-to-pass.org
The impact of the First World War from the perspective of a New Zealand
community: Papanui, Christchurch.
Passchendaele: Fighting for Belgium
www.NZhistory.net.nz
This new exhibition published by the History Group, Ministry for Culture
and Heritage contains a comprehensive exhibition on the campaign and its
legacy for New Zealand.
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