Bertram's 1992 autobiography Capes of China Slide Away: A memoir of peace and war 1910-1980.Bertram, James M., Capes of China Slide Away: A Memoir of Peace and War 1910-1980, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1993. 'Capes of China' is a term from a W. H. Auden poem reprinted after the book's foreword. drew on material covered in Bertram's earlier books, Crisis in China, North China Front and The Shadow of a War. In the foreword to Capes of China Slide Away Bertram wrote 'I am more Marco Polo than Rousseau. If there is any lasting interest in the chapters that follow, it is probably in the nature of the material. I was a not atypical middle-class New Zealander of my own war generation but some of my experience was perhaps out of the common run. China and Japan are nearer to us now than they seemed fifty years ago; we all need to know more about them. So I hope in my recollections of some critical years of war and revolution may throw light, for readers, on recent history in the Pacific zone.'p vii. Bertram, James, Capes of China Slide Away: A Memoir of Peace and War 1910-1980, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1993.
