"Blood on Their Banner is an excellent introduction for the general reader to the contemporary Pacific. Challenging and well-researched, it should prove equally valuable as a text for studies on the nature of nationalism and struggles for justice and democracy."
Robbie Robertson, Arena

"David Robie's vivid and well-documented account is a powerful indictment of the foreign policies of the United States, France and Indonesia. Even New Zealand and Australia are implicated."
Nemani Delaibatiki, Waikato Times

"David Robie is one of the better known New Zealand-based journalists currently reporting on the Pacific. His investigative articles on issues and conflicts of the day have brought a new and welcome seriousness to writing on the politics of this region."
Ian Frazer, Otago Daily Times