Dance of the peacocks
Subtitle: New Zealanders in exile in the time of Hitler and Mao Tse-tung
By: [James McNeish].
Publisher: Random House New Zealand
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
Subjects: Bertram, James M; Cox, Geoffrey, 1910-; Davin, Dan, 1913-; Milner, Ian; Mulgan, John, 1911-1945; New Zealand -- Biography; New Zealand -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; New Zealand -- History -- 1918-1945; New Zealand -- History -- 1945-
Genres: Biography.
Description: This is a story based on letters and diaries and interviews in several countries. It is the story of a group of Rhodes scholars, five young men - James Bertram, Geoffrey Cox, Dan Davin, Ian Milner, John Mulgan - caught up in the turmoil of their times: Spain, Hitler's Germany, Greece and North Africa, Eastern Europe, China. They left New Zealand in the thirties for "the dreaming spires" of Oxford. War intervened. Only one returned.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-472) and index.
"A Vintage book"--T.p. verso.