Title: Dance of the peacocks
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.
Subjects: Intellectual life, Biography, History, Intellectural life
Places: New Zealand
People: Dan Davin (1913-), Geoffrey Cox (1910-), Ian Milner, James M. Bertram, John Mulgan (1911-1945)
Time periods: 1918-1945, 1945-, 20th century