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Staff paid heavy price

Few major institutions in Auckland's history devoted 82 per cent of their staff to a war.

U-boat's secret mission to NZ

Seventy years ago today, a German submarine went on an unsuccessful search for ships to sink in New Zealand waters.

100 Kiwi Stories: Pilot first to win Victoria Cross

58: He was a dashing English gent of Maori descent with a daring need for speed, who became the first airman to win a Victoria Cross in World War I.

100 Kiwi Stories: Men of the cloth not spared from conflict while doing their duty

57: One hundred and forty chaplains accompanied New Zealand forces to war.

100 Kiwi Stories: Captain a real Anzac hero

57: Important chapters in Alfred Shout's life took place on both sides of the Tasman and he is remembered with pride in New Zealand and Australia.

War ends but the battle goes on

The war is officially over, victory secured. And Afghanistan, once again, has been rebuilt. But for many, life in the restive provinces is much as it ever was.

Kremlin denies deaths in undeclared war

Anton Tumanov gave up his life for his country, but his country won't say where and it won't say how.

West can't rely on a White Knight

There is a scene in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass in which Alice meets the White Knight who is wearing full armour and riding a horse which he keeps falling off.

Naval vets honoured

Four surviving veterans of one of New Zealand's most famous naval battles joined nearly 600 sailors and thousands of well-wishers in a parade on Auckland's Queen St yesterday to mark the Battle of the River Plate's 75th anniversary.

Bearing witness to Battle of the River Plate

"I wasn't as dead as I had first surmised." Those were the words of HMS Achilles gunnery officer, Lieutenant Richard Washbourn, in a previously unpublished letter.

CIA torture report may spark violence

US embassies have been told to prepare for violent protests ahead of a report into the CIA's use of torture.

100 Kiwi Stories: Pro-Irish farmer on Britain's side

52: To be Irish but fighting for Britain was to be conflicted.

Kiwi crew at heart of history

With bells clanging, whistles screeching and hundreds of booted sailors clattering to their firing stations, boy seaman Bob Batt had every right to be scared.

Peters: Troops kitted-out for Iraq

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters claims "large-scale" military preparations are under way at New Zealand bases in anticipation of a deployment to Iraq.

100 Kiwi Stories: Secret war waged at home

51: New Zealanders from different points on the political spectrum hated censorship.

Kiwis' over-the-top escape immortalised

World War II's greatest escape, which involved Kiwi officers scaling barbed wire fences instead of the previously favoured method of tunnelling, has been told for the first time.