From Taranto to Trieste

From Taranto to Trieste is the author’s fascinating journey retracing the actual path of the 2nd New Zealand Division in Italy from its arrival in October 1943 until the end of the European war. Although a personal journey with personal reflections, the real story is about the largely off-the-beaten track places the troops passed through, what they saw and experienced along the way and, in some cases what they missed. To complement the Division’s story, the historical context and military actions are explained with many maps as well as war-time photographs and colourful quotations from official military histories.

Author Jennifer Mallinson, with a history degree from Canterbury University, has lived in Verona, Italy since the early 1970s. A fluent Italian speaker and naturalized Italian she “found most Italians had no idea of the New Zealand presence during the war, even when Kiwis had been through their villages”.