TY - BOOK AU - Stead, C. K. TI - Talking about O'Dwyer SN - 0140288392 AV - PR9639.3.S7 T3 1999 U1 - NZ823.2 21 PY - 1999/// CY - Auckland, N.Z. PB - Penguin Books KW - Blessing and cursing KW - Fiction KW - Friendly fire (Military science) KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Participation, Maori KW - Campaigns KW - Greece KW - Crete KW - New Zealand fiction KW - 20th century N1 - A novel N2 - What really happened to a soldier in the infamous Maori battalion, killed in the battle for Crete during World War II? Half a century later, two Oxford dons attend the funeral of expatriate New Zealander O'Dwyer, and one reveals that O'Dwyer spent his life haunted by a secret Maori curse ER -