Gerald Hensley

Gerald Hensley served as a diplomat for twenty years, before becoming head of the New Zealand Prime Minister's Department under Robert Muldoon and David Lange and then Secretary of Defence from 1991-1999. He is a historian and author of Final Approaches: A Memoir (Auckland University Press, 2006) and Beyond the Battlefield: New Zealand and its Allies, 1939-45 (Penguin, 2009), a finalist in the New Zealand Post Book Awards.

Gerald Hensley served as a diplomat for twenty years, before becoming head of the New Zealand Prime Minister's Department under Robert Muldoon and David Lange and then Secretary of Defence from 1991-1999. He is a historian and author of Final Approaches: A Memoir (Auckland University Press, 2006) and Beyond the Battlefield: New Zealand and its Allies, 1939-45 (Penguin, 2009), a finalist in the New Zealand Post Book Awards. See less