An Awfully Big Adventure: New Zealand's World War One veterans tell their stories presents edited pieces from the interviews of the WW1 Oral History Archive in chronological order through the war and beyond. From interviews done with veterans aged 86-plus in the late 1980 by Nicholas Boyack and Jane Tolerton. (The recordings are in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington). Price includes postage within New Zealand.
An Awfully Big Adventure
New Zealand Listener's '100 Best Books of 2013': AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE traces the reminiscences and reflections of 80 veterans interviewed for the World War One Oral History Archive.
Deeply affecting and absorbing, An Awfully Big Adventure is an important historical memoir that reads as if it all happened yesterday.
NEW ZEALAND LISTENER