Dead letters : censorship and subversion in New Zealand, 1914-1920 / Jared Davidson.

In 1918, from deep within the West Coast bush, 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,...

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Main Author: Davidson, Jared, 1984- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago, 2019.
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