Gwennie's Diary: A Kiwi's World Tour to Yorkshire 1939-40

by Anthony Dodsworth

In 2003, a heavy parcel posted from New Zealand arrived at a bungalow in Rawmarsh, Near Rotherham, Yorkshire. The parcel consisted of a huge, typewritten diary produced by Gwennie Peacock, a young woman from Auckland, while completing a journey around the world and visiting her family in Britain. This extraordinary account, which covers the period between February 1939 and August 1940, vividly brings to life the approach of war and its first few months...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781552681
• ISBN13: 9781781552681
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Fonthill Media
• Length: 304 Pages