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The Battlecruiser New Zealand - A Gift to Empire (Hardcover)
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The Battlecruiser New Zealand - A Gift to Empire (Hardcover)
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This book tells the story of HMS New Zealand, a battlecruiser paid
for by the people of New Zealand in 1909, and when Japan was
perceived as a threat in Australasia and the Pacific. Born of the
collision between New Zealand's patriotic dreams and European
politics, the tale of HMS New Zealand is further wrapped in the
turbulent power-plays at the Admiralty in the years leading up to
the World War I, not least because her design was already
obsolescent when she was built. Nevertheless, she went on to have a
distinguished World War I career when she was present in all three
major naval battles--Heligoland, Dogger Bank, and Jutland--in the
North Sea. The book outlines the politics, the engineering issues,
and provides a fast-paced account of the ship's career through
official documents, eyewitness accounts of her crew and other
period documentation, including reports of her dockings and
modifications. All this is inter-woven with the human and social
context to create a 'biography' of the ship as an expression of
human endeavor, engineering, and action, and it is presented in
significantly more detail than the summaries available in prior
accounts.
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