Travel Reference
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Wellington-born Nancy Wake (codenamed 'The White Mouse') led a guerrilla attack against the Nazis
with a 7000-strong army. She had the multiple honours of being the Gestapo's most-wanted person and
being the most decorated Allied servicewoman of WWII.
There were also developments in cultural nationalism, beginning in the 1930s but really
flowering from the 1970s. Writers, artists and film-makers were by no means the only
people who 'came out' in that era.
Maurice Shadbolt's
Season of the Jew
(1987) is a semifictionalised story of bloody campaigns led by warrior
Te Kooti against the British in Poverty Bay in the 1860s. Te Kooti and his followers compared themselves
to the Israelites who were cast out of Egypt.
