Story: Second World War
Page 10. External links and sources
More links and websites
Second World War
NZ History’s comprehensive section on the Second World War.
More suggestions and sources
- Hutching, Megan, ed. Against the rising sun: New Zealanders remember the Pacific War. Auckland: HarperCollins in association with the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2006.
- Hutching, Megan, ed. The desert road: New Zealanders remember the North African campaign. Auckland: HarperCollins in association with the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2005.
- Hutching, Megan, ed. A fair sort of battering, New Zealanders remember the Italian campaign. Auckland: HarperCollins in association with the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2004.
- Hutching, Megan, ed. A unique sort of battle: New Zealanders remember Crete. Auckland: HarperCollins in association with the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2001.
- McGibbon, Ian. New Zealand and the Second World War: the people, the battles and the legacy. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 2004.
- Montgomerie, Deborah. The women’s war: New Zealand women 1939–45. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2001.
- Parr, Alison. Home, civilian New Zealanders remember the Second World War. Auckland: Penguin, 2010.
How to cite this page
Ian McGibbon, Second World War, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/207180/sources (accessed 10 June 2026).
Story by Ian McGibbon, published 17 April 2012, updated 1 May 2016.