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

People: Dan Davin (1913-),  Geoffrey Cox (1910-),  Ian Milner,  James M. Bertram,  John Mulgan (1911-1945)

Places: New Zealand

Times: 1918-1945,  1945-,  20th century