Dance of the Peacocks New Zealanders in Exile in the Time of Hitler and Mao Tse-Tung |
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Author:
| McNeish, James |
ISBN: | 978-1-4596-7220-8 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
Publisher: | ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $33.99 |
Book Description:
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The true story of five talented young men in exile in the time of Hitler and Mao Tse - Tung. 'Altogether they knew five wars, three revolutions and - in the case of Ian Milner, accused in the Cold War of being a spy - a slander.' Regarded by one critic as 'the best book published in New Zealand in the last twenty years', this is a fascinating story based on letters, diaries and interviews in several countries. It is the story of a group of Rhodes scholars, five young men - James...
More DescriptionThe true story of five talented young men in exile in the time of Hitler and Mao Tse - Tung. 'Altogether they knew five wars, three revolutions and - in the case of Ian Milner, accused in the Cold War of being a spy - a slander.' Regarded by one critic as 'the best book published in New Zealand in the last twenty years', this is a fascinating story based on letters, 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.