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Fernleaf Cairo : New Zealanders at Maadi Camp / Alex Hedley with Megan Hutching.
- Title
- Fernleaf Cairo : New Zealanders at Maadi Camp / Alex Hedley with Megan Hutching.
- Author
- Hedley, Alex
- Publication
- Auckland, N.Z. : HarperCollins Publishers, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | D767.85 .H374 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Hutching, Megan
- Description
- 272 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Its call sign was Fernleaf Cairo, and between 1939 and 1946, around 76,000 Kiwis of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force passed through Maadi Camp. Around 14 kilometres south of Cairo, the camp appeared almost overnight, as this country's permanent overseas base during the Second World War. By 1945 the camp had tar-sealed roads, two cinemas, an open-air amphitheatre, canteens, bars, chapels, sports fields, a meat-pie and ice-cream factory, and thanks to General Bernard Freyberg, swimming baths. With unpublished images and first-hand accounts, Fernleaf Cairo offers a fascinating insight into the unlikely bond young New Zealanders forged with the people and city of Cairo, including their many highly colourful experiences on leave."--Back cover.
- Alternative Title
- New Zealanders at Maadi Camp
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-272).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781869507558 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2009397848
- OCLC
- 298324684
- SCSB-11011977
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library