Books by New Zealand author Ron Crosby

Ron Crosby was born in 1949 and spent the first 30 years of his working life as a court lawyer, initially in partnership for a few years in Auckland, and from 1975 in Blenheim where he still lives. He was admitted to the Bar in 1971 and gained an LLB Hons at Auckland University. He married Margy, who is of Te Rarawa/Te Aupouri descent, in 1971 and they have three adult children. In 2002 Ron formally retired as a partner of the law firm Gascoigne Wicks, but continued as a consultant to that firm predominantly in resource management and iwi fields for another six years finally retiring at the end of December 2007 to concentrate on writing.
In 1999 he wrote The Musket Wars –A History of Inter-Iwi Conflict 1806-1845, in 2004 Gilbert Mair – Te Kooti’s Nemesis, in 2006 Andris Apse – Odyssey and Images, in 2008 Albaneta – Lost Opportunity at Casino (all Reed publications); in 2009 NZSAS: The First Fifty Years (Penguin), in 2012 A Desperate Dawn - The Battle for Turuturu Mokai 1868 Tawhi Museum and in 2015 Kupapa - The bitter legacy of Maori alliances with the crown (Penguin Random House).
https://www.roncrosby.co.nz/books

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