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Title: Load of embarrassing claptrap.
Review: I am deeply embarrassed as a New Zealander that this biased and revisionist document of misinformation is being held-up as the authoritative account of the New Zealand wars. Belich has slanted it with his politically-correct anti-British and anti-Colonial views. Not only is it reprehensible and reveals much about Belich himself and the historic Academia in NZ but it has given birth to some complete factual falsehoods now being believed amongst some Maori that are dangerous.Belich is NOT a military historian and certainly has no first-hand military experience. The fact he could actually believe for a second that "trench warfare was invented by the Maori" despite the wealth of documentation of defensive trenches used in the Napoleonic wars alone is ignorant, hilarious and disgraceful. This work and its author badly needs to be scrutinised and discredited before its fictions become more circulated.
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