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Geoffrey Cox

Geoffrey Cox

Geoffrey Cox in 1932, the year he left New Zealand for Britain on a Rhodes Scholarship. Cox forged a successful career as a journalist and wrote several books based on his experiences in Europe during the 1930s and 40s, notably Defence of Madrid (1937). During the war he was responsible for the ill-fated paper Crete News.

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Geoffrey Cox

Just how did a boy born in Palmerston North come to witness first hand the impact of Stalinism, the rise of Hitler and the Spanish Civil War?

Front page of Crete News

Front page of Crete News
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