Book description
'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.' 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. James McNeish (1931- ) was born in Auckland and is a
novelist, playwright, journalist, broadcaster and biographer. He is the
author of twenty-five books and plays. In 2010 he received the Prime
Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Non-Fiction and in 2011 was
knighted for services to literature.
