'In Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War R. Scott Sheffield and Noah Riseman have crafted a detailed comparative study of Indigenous peoples – Native Americans of the United States, First Nations peoples of Canada, the Māori people of New Zealand and the Indigenous peoples of Australia and the Torres Strait Islands – and their military service during World War II. As one can imagine, each community’s participation in the war was rich and varied, but as Tom Holm emphasises in his foreword, ‘their experiences before, during and following their return home were remarkably similar’ (xi).' (Introduction)