COURAGE AND VALOUR: New Zealanders in the Italian Campaign

At long last, after more than four years working towards this, I am very pleased to announce that the website is now online that will host my new “Courage And Valour” audio podcast series!!

Courage And Valour: New Zealanders in the Italian Campaign is an audio documentary series in which the story of the long, hard conflict to liberate Italy from the Nazis in 1943 to 1945 is told through the memories of veterans who were there. For four years I have been filming, recording and compiling interviews with veteran soldiers, airmen and so far just one sailor who served in the campaign. I have been editing them into audio documentaries which will form an episodic series that people can download and listen to for free.

There is an amazing amount of history in these shows, much of which has never been told. And the series – which is planned to have around 20 episodes, with each lasting around an hour – delves far more deeply into the topic than anything you’ve ever seen or heard before.

The first two episodes are now online and available. We’re starting off with the Army’s perspective, but as the series progresses we’ll also focus on the New Zealand airmen and sailors who were in the conflict too.

Episode One is all about the training and garrison duties that the soldiers did in NewZealand before they went overseas to join the 2nd New Zealand Division.

Episode Two is about them arriving in Egypt for further training, then heading with the Div to Italy, and we hear the stories for their first battle on Italian soil, the push to cross the Sangro River.

Please take a look around the site, which has pages of information to support the series and give listeners a guide to the campaign, such as a Timeline, and a Glossary section. I am hoping over time to add more and more information to the site, as more and more episodes get added. if you want to add anything to the information already there, or perhaps offer corrections, please feel free to get in touch with me.

If you go to the Courage And Valour Episodes page you’ll find those first two episodes of the series online, ready for you to listen to, and to download to keep. I hope you’ll all take the time to have a listen, and please do share your thoughts and add feedback, ideas, criticism and suggestions, and also please pass on links to the site to others and spread the word.

And here it is, the website:
http://www.newzealandersatwar.com/

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