Denis Glover, Charles Brasch, Ian Milner - these names have long been familiar to New Zealanders. Less well-known is their contemporary and close friend, journalist Douglas Brass, whose remarkable four-decade career gave him a unique view of a turbulent period in world history: serving as a war correspondent and columnist through World War II, the partitioning of Palestine, and the outbreak of the Vietnam War.
Originally a boy from Southland, Brass was a close collaborator with the Murdoch family who would go on to raise a global media empire on the back of their agenda-setting tabloid exploits, and was one of the founders of national newspaper The Australian.
Peter Cox is the author of Tunis is Mad Tonight: The life and times of New Zealand journalist Douglas Brass.
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