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Back to the Spanish front, Keith Ovenden

Posted on June 1, 2007 by NZ Books

Defence of Madrid Geoffrey Cox Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877372382 The republication of Geoffrey Cox’s short work Defence of Madrid (1937) is a corrective to many contemporary assumptions about the Spanish Civil War. It is an eyewitness account of…

Tagged with: Geoffrey Cox, Issue 78, Keith Ovenden, Otago University Press, Winter 2007
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review

Rich and troubling paradox, Vincent O’Sullivan

Posted on October 30, 1996 by NZ Books

A Fighting Withdrawal: the life of Dan Davin Keith Ovenden Oxford University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0 19 212355 1 Even before this careful and stylish biography came out,to think of Dan Davin was to conjure a rich and in some…

Tagged with: Autumn 1996, Issue 25, Keith Ovenden, Oxford University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review