What is it about?
Thomas Tate was sunk three times as a Navy stoker and after getting just a weeks recovery leave each time he went awol in North Africa for two years before joining up again for the push through Italy. I’ve tracked down many of the places he visited and described in interviews and a journal many decades later.
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Why is it important?
Diary and memory. The discovery of humanity and humour amongst the horrors of war, and in anti fascist struggles or in the so-called war on terror, the attempt to write and record your story prevails.
Perspectives
The personal is revealed in the end, but you have to read it to get there.
Associate Professor John Hutnyk
Ton Duc Thang University
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This page is a summary of: What did you do in the war? Revisiting the WW2 memoirs of Stoker Thomas Mouat Tate, History and Anthropology, June 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2019.1626853.
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