Osprey Men-at-Arms №486. Stack Wayne, O’Sullivan Barry. The New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War II

Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 50 p.Initially thrown into the doomed campaign to halt the German blitzkrieg on Greece and Crete (1941), the division was rebuilt under the leadership of Major General Sir Bernard Freyberg, and became the elite corps within Montgomery's Eighth Army in the desert. After playing a vital role in the victory at El Alamein (1942) the ‘Kiwis' were the vanguard of the pursuit to Tunisia. In 1943-1945 the division was heavily engaged in the Italian mountains, especially at Cassino (1944); it ended the war in Trieste. Meanwhile, a smaller NZ force supported US forces against the Japanese in the Solomons and New Guinea (1942-1944).