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Joel Hayward, ZDaF, BA, MA Hons, PhD, FRSA, FRHistS

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Joel Hayward’s books include:

Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-1943 (click on title to purchase)

A Joint Future? The Move to Jointness and its Implications for the New Zealand Defence Force (editor)

For God and Glory: Lord Nelson and His Way of War (click on title to purchase)

Born to Lead? Portraits of New Zealand Commanders (with Dr Glyn Harper) (click on title to purchase)

Jenny Green Teeth and Other Short Stories (see below)

Lifeblood: A Book of Poetry (see below)

JENNY GREEN TEETH

AND OTHER SHORT STORIES

BY JOEL HAYWARD

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"Superb. … Deep, brooding and intense. … This is storytelling, and New Zealand fiction, at its best."

-- Evening Standard, 9 May 2003

"This is a stunning book of short stories, for their sheer variety and depth, and also strength of language. The 'fable' aspect of the title story is compelling and real, not that I will give away any of the plot here! 'My Own Grave,' about the Terrace End Cemetery is scary. It is strange that dead people are treated as so real, but that is the stuff of exciting storytelling. Hayward writes with an eye to truth and justice and historical accuracy. It is up to us to know what to do with writing as superb as this. Can we learn?

-- Southern Ocean Review, Issue 27 (12 April 2003)

Good New Zealand short stories are almost as rare as the Kakapo, but prove as entrancing and satisfying when found. This collection of unique and powerful stories (some set in the past, others in the here-and-now) avoids the current trends of trivial anecdotal narrative and over-the-top fantasy.

Written in various styles and in different voices, the rich and evocative tales in Jenny Green Teeth and other Short Stories will move, sadden, delight and provoke readers.

Few stories let the reader escape without challenges to his or her assumptions and none let the reader avoid engaging the subtly revealed underpinning issues.

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LIFEBLOOD: A BOOK OF POEMS

BY JOEL HAYWARD

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"Memorable and insightful. … Thumbs up for Hayward’s work"

-- Evening Standard, 9 May 2003

"… as an academic, and now as a poet and fiction writer, Hayward has achieved much. This is a complex book, and deserves a much longer review. Hayward is at home with the visceral, the cut and thrust of argument, war and death, pain and revenge… The poems are racy and innovative, a definite cut above the moderate fare currently on offer. You enter a whole new world when you read Joel Hayward’s poetry."

-- Southern Ocean Review, Issue 27 (12th April 2003)

Hayward’s "eclectic" poetry reflects his "enigmatic mind. … His poems are passionate and full of rich images and exert a strong and dignified intelligence. Hayward exerts a courageous strength, rebelling against his past creative constraints, and in perhaps a flush of originality and ambitious flair, has achieved a work of art."

-- Chaff, 14 July 2003, p. 23.

"The author sets out to deliver poetry that is relevant and accessible to the whole community. This he achieves. … We are treated to a fascinating "OE" from the comfort of our favourite armchair drawn up to the log fire. … So are you going on a journey? Staying by the fire? Either way you'll find Joel Hayward’s Lifeblood a useful addition to your library."

-- Valley Micropress, August 2003

"New Zealand poetry" is a loaded phrase often used to denote writers' heavy use of, and in some cases reliance on, specific Kiwi social and cultural motifs and poetic styling.

Lifeblood: A Book of Poems does not snugly fit that description. The author is a New Zealander who has gained abundant inspiration from his experiences and observations in this picturesque and sparsely populated nation. But he has also traveled widely in Europe, America, Asia and elsewhere, and thus had haunting, frightening, frustrating, amusing, delightful and fascinating experiences within other nations and cultures. His relaxed and fluid poetry, expressed in various styles and always with verve and insight, reflects the authors breadth of experience as well as his reflections on those most mysterious of beliefs: animism and humanism.

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I have also published widely in the world's leading defence and military journals.

These peer-reviewed scholarly articles, many of them often cited by historians and defence analysts, include this representative selection:

  • "Hitler's Quest for Oil: The Impact of Economic Considerations on Military Strategy, 1941-42," The Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 18, No. 4 (December 1995), pp. 94-135.
  • "Stalingrad: An Examination of Hitler’s Decision to Airlift", Airpower Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 1997), pp. 21-37. Read this article HERE. The article has been widely cited in student reports and theses at the [U.S.] Air Command and Staff College and the [U.S] School of Advanced Airpower Studies. The U.S. Air Force also published the article in Spanish. It can be read in Spanish HERE.
  • "The German Use of Airpower at Kharkov, May 1942", Air Power History, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Summer 1997), pp. 18-29.
  • "Von Richthofen's 'giant fire-magic': The Luftwaffe's Contribution to the Battle of Kerch, 1942", The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2 (June 1997), pp. 97-124.
  • "A Case Study in Effective Command: An Analysis of Field Marshal Richthofen's Character and Career", New Zealand Army Journal, No. 18 (January 1998), pp. 7- 18.
  • "NATO's Air War in the Balkans: A Preliminary Analysis", New Zealand Army Journal, No. 21 (July 1999), pp. 1-17.
  • "A Case Study in Early Joint Warfare: An Analysis of the Wehrmacht's Crimean Campaign of 1942", The Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 22, No. 4 (December 1999), pp. 103-130. Read this article HERE.
  • "Too Little, Too Late: An Analysis of Hitler's Failure in August 1942 to Damage Soviet Oil Production", The Journal of Military History, Vol. 64, No. 3 (July 2000), pp. 769-794. Read this heavyweight article HERE.
  • "Adolf Hitler and Joint Warfare", Military Studies Institute Working Papers Series No. 2/2000 (44 pp.).
  • "Horatio Lord Nelson's Warfighting Style and the Maneuver Warfare Paradigm", Defence Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer 2001), pp. 15-37.
  • "Prayers Before Battle: The Spiritual Utterances of Three Great Commanders", US Army Chaplaincy Journal (Winter-Spring 2002), pp. 32-40. Read this fun little article HERE.
  • "Current and Future Command Challenges for New Zealand Defence Force Personnel", Australian Defence Force Journal, No. 155 (July/August 2002), pp. 39-45.