In Love and War: Kiwi soldiers' romantic encounters

In Love and War: Kiwi soldiers' romantic encounters
Title In Love and War: Kiwi soldiers' romantic encounters PDF eBook
Author Susan Jacobs
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 323
Release 2012-04-26
Genre History
ISBN 1742532489

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When New Zealand forces arrived in Italy following the 1943 Armistice with the Allied forces, it was inevitable they would mingle with the local population. The Italians opened their homes and hearts to the New Zealand soldiers who delighted in finding young Italian signorinas everywhere. In Love and War tells of the liaisons and love affairs of New Zealand soldiers and their Italian sweethearts during World War Two. For some the result was marriage, leading to a new and often strained life for the Italian war brides on the other side of the world. For others, their wartime romance ended in heartbreaking separation when the Kiwi soldiers were posted elsewhere or returned home. Unknowingly, some left behind children who would grow up without ever meeting their natural fathers. While the New Zealand commanding officers did their very best to curtail fraternisation between Kiwi soldiers and the civilian population, for servicemen starved of female company relationships were easy to fall into. These touching stories of their romantic wartime encounters reveal the human side of war.

In Love and War

In Love and War
Title In Love and War PDF eBook
Author Susan Mary Jacobs
Publisher
Pages 380
Release 2012
Genre World War, 1939-1945
ISBN 9781459637108

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Of Love and War

Of Love and War
Title Of Love and War PDF eBook
Author Angela Wanhalla
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 201
Release 2001
Genre
ISBN 1496237986

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Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific

Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific
Title Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific PDF eBook
Author Judith A. Bennett
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 405
Release 2016-03-31
Genre History
ISBN 0824858298

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Over the course of World War II, two million American military personnel occupied bases throughout the South Pacific, leaving behind a human legacy of at least 4,000 children born to indigenous mothers. Based on interviews conducted with many of these American-indigenous children and several of the surviving mothers, Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific explores the intimate relationships that existed between untold numbers of U.S. servicemen and indigenous women during the war and considers the fate of their mixed-race children. These relationships developed in the major U.S. bases of the South Pacific Command, from Bora Bora in the east across to Solomon Islands in the west, and from the Gilbert Islands in the north to New Zealand, in the southernmost region of the Pacific. The American military command carefully managed interpersonal encounters between the sexes, applying race-based U.S. immigration law on Pacific peoples to prevent marriage “across the color line.” For indigenous women and their American servicemen sweethearts, legal marriage was impossible; giving rise to a generation of fatherless children, most of whom grew up wanting to know more about their American lineage. Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific traces these children’s stories of loss, emotion, longing, and identity—and of lives lived in the shadow of global war. Each chapter discusses the context of the particular island societies and shows how this often determined the ways intimate relationships developed and were accommodated during the war years and beyond. Oral histories reveal what the records of colonial governments and the military have largely ignored, providing a perspective on the effects of the U.S. occupation that until now has been disregarded by Pacific war historians. The richness of this book will appeal to those interested the Pacific, World War II, as well as intimacy, family, race relations, colonialism, identity, and the legal structures of U.S. immigration.

Contact Zones of the First World War

Contact Zones of the First World War
Title Contact Zones of the First World War PDF eBook
Author Anna Maguire
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 245
Release 2021-08-26
Genre History
ISBN 1108996914

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This is the first in-depth and comparative study of the experience of colonial encounters for troops from the British Empire during the First World War. Drawing on a rich variety of textual and visual material, Anna Maguire explores new contact zones that materialised beyond the battlefield, on troopships, in ports, in military camps and hospitals, in cafes and city streets. She reveals how the colonial mobilisation of troops during the conflict prompted the emergence of spaces for interactions, fleeting moments or ongoing relationships. Through their personal experiences, she uncovers how men from New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies viewed themselves and their identities during a time of global conflict, simultaneously asserting the strength of the existing colonial order and challenging its enactment, through contact, conflict and collaboration. In spaces away from the frontlines, Maguire uses these cultural encounters of colonial troops to offer a more intricate understanding of imperial power relations.

Restaging War in the Western World

Restaging War in the Western World
Title Restaging War in the Western World PDF eBook
Author M. Abbenhuis
Publisher Springer
Pages 238
Release 2009-03-30
Genre History
ISBN 0230620124

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This collection seeks to move noncombatant perspectives to center stage, acknowledging their importance, destabilizing the primacy of the combatant, and explaining or undermining the staging of warfare as a singular and acontextual production.

The Women's War

The Women's War
Title The Women's War PDF eBook
Author Deborah Montgomerie
Publisher Auckland University Press
Pages 212
Release 2001
Genre History
ISBN 9781869402440

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"This book explains the ambiguities of wartime changes in the private and public lives of New Zealand women. It considers women as mothers, wives and lovers, as well as workers, using many examples from real lives. Deborah Montgomerie's main argument is that despite the changes, the war was essentially a conservative period, pointing out that understanding the continuities in gender relations is as important as cataloguing female 'firsts'. Her book stylishly challenges accepted wisdom and offers a clear, fresh view of a period often viewed through the blurry lens of nostalgia and anecdote."--BOOK JACKET.