Dance of the Peacocks: New Zealanders in Exile in the Time of Hitler and Mao Tse-Tung - James McNeish

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 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.

First published in 2003, this copy a 2003 reprint, by Random House.

Condition: used paperback in good condition. Some yellowing to paper and spine cracks but a very tidy copy. 

480 pages with index, select bibliography and five sections of photographs.