Dear Oliver Their stories are also told

Their stories are also told in this compelling book

is as surprising

each in their own domain

New Zealand’s war through the lens of those who served

expert essays by Peter Simpson

Dear Oliver Their stories are also toldA fresh way to look at New Zealands history Longlisted for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mothers effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth century human diaspora from Britain. His family experienced the war against Te Kooti, the Boer War, the Napier