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Matthew Wright

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Matthew Wright has qualifications in music, history and anthropology, among other fields, holds postgraduate degrees in history, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society at University College, London. He published his first short story in 1976 and since the early 1980s has worked extensively as a writer, professional historian, reviewer and journalist. His work includes more than 500 articles, academic papers and reviews, and over 50 books on topics from travel guides to biography, engineering, earthquakes, transport, military and social history. He has a particular interest in the sciences.

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The New Zealand Wars: A Bri...

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Guns and Utu: A Short Histo...

4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012
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Waitangi: A Living Treaty

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Italian Odyssey: The Second...

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Dreadnoughts Unleashed: Col...

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Old South : life and times ...

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Explaining Our Weird Univer...

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Battle for Crete: New Zeala...

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Behind Enemy Lines: Kiwi Fr...

3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010
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Shattered Glory: The New Ze...

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