Full name Christopher Pugsley Main interests Military history Education University of Waikato | Role Author Name Christopher Pugsley | |
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Region United Kingdom, New Zealand Books The ANZAC experience, On the fringe of hell, The Anzacs at Gallipoli, From emergency to confron, Kiwis in Conflict: 200 Year | ||
Christopher Pugsley ONZM (born 1947) is a New Zealand military historian.
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Career
He became interested in writing in 1984 when, as a career army officer, he authored a book and worked on a television documentary about New Zealand's involvement in the Gallipoli campaign. In 1987, he left his position of infantry lieutenant colonel to dedicate himself to a new career as historian. In 1994, he became Writing Fellow at the Victoria University of Wellington. He then taught at University of New England, Australia from 1996 to 1999. Until 2014 he was Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Adjunct Senior Fellow at New Zealand's University of Canterbury.
During the 1990s he wrote a series of detailed articles called "Walking the Waikato Wars",in the now defunct New Zealand Defence Quarterly, in which he visited each Waikato Battle site and reviewed each battle through the eyes of a modern professional military officer using photographs and maps to illustrate events.
His primary area of interest is 20th-century New Zealand, Australian, Canadian and British Commonwealth military history, with particular focus on Gallipoli, and the Western Front.
He is published as Chris Pugsley and Christopher Pugsley.