Dance of the Peacocks
| Author | : James McNeish |
| Publisher | : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 2013-03-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781869796624 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1869796624 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (624 Downloads) |
Download or read book Dance of the Peacocks written by James McNeish and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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