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diary

My grandfather wanted his secret war diary burned. I’ve just published it.

20 August 2020 by Ian Trafford

Nelson writer and photographer Ian Trafford on the fraught origins of his new book, Into the Unknown. Alick survived World War I by the skin of his teeth, and thus so did his illicit diaries, and now my book. I called my grandfather Papa as a child, and by the time I was born into … Read more

Categories Books, Featured Tags diary, Gisborne, Memoir, war, World War One

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