Dead Letters: Censorship and subversion in New Zealand 1914-1920
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Dead Letters: Censorship and subversion in New Zealand 1914-1920
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In 1918, a miner on the run from the military wrote a letter to his sweetheart.
Two months later he was in jail. Like millions of others, his letter had been steamed open by a team of censors shrouded in secrecy. Using their confiscated mail as a starting point, Dead Letters reveals the remarkable stories of people caught in the web of wartime surveillance. Among them were a feisty German-born socialist, an affectionate Irish nationalist, a love-struck miner, an aspiring Maxim Gorky, and two mystical dairy farmers with a poetic bent. Military censorship within New Zealand meant that their letters were stopped, confiscated, and filed away, sealed and unread for over 100 years. Until now.
Book Details
- Author: Jared Davidson
- Publisher: Otago University Press
- eBook ISBN: 9781988531953, 1988531950
- Print ISBN: 9781988531526, 1988531527
