Status Updates From The Great War for New Zeala...

Okay. I did attempt to read this book last year. But I was intimidated by its sheer heft! Didn’t get into it and had to abandon it. This time around I’m going to read it consistently; slowly progress through it.
One issue I’m having is with the large number of characters. I can easily forget a name I read just a minute ago! Not ideal with a book like this.

So well written AND I've got completely side tracked by life. I haven't picked it up in a while due to work/study comittments but fully intend to come back to it.

Continued.

Every page of this book surprises, yet saddens me as I anticipate future chapters that will report on the antecedents to breakdown, wars, land confiscation, and justice.

Each page makes me weep for what might have been.... what might have been for the proactive and enterprising indigenous Māori people of the Waikato as they established food supplies and labor to help the early European New Zealand colonists succeed with their lives in New Zealand Aotearoa.