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100 1  Palin, Michael|4aut 
245 10 Great-Uncle Harry :|ba tale of war and empire /|cMichael 
       Palin 
264  1 London :|bHutchinson Heinemann,|c2023 
264  4 |c©2023 
300    xiii, 322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
       |billustrations (some colour), maps, portraits (some 
       colour)|c24 cm 
336    text|astill image|acartographic image|btxt|bsti|bcri
       |2rdacontent|2rdacontent|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Harry Palin worked in New Zealand between 1912 and 1914, 
       before enlisting in the 12th New Zealand Regiment of the 
       New Zealand Expeditionary Force to serve overseas in the 
       Great War 
500    Published in Canada by Random House Canada, 2023 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
520    Some years ago a stash of family records was handed down 
       to Michael Palin, among which was a photograph of an 
       enigmatic young man in army uniform. This, he learnt, was 
       his Great-Uncle Harry, who perished at the Battle of the 
       Somme in 1916 aged just thirty-two. The discovery both 
       shocked him and made him want to know more. The quest that
       followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking 
       detective work, as Michael set out to trace his great-
       uncle's journey from the comfort of a middle-class 
       Victorian childhood, via spells working on railways and 
       tea plantations in India and on a farm in New Zealand, to 
       the slaughtering grounds of Gallipoli and Flanders. He 
       pored over surviving fragments of family correspondence 
       and tantalisingly brief mentions in official documents. He
       scrutinised Harry's often frustratingly terse war diaries.
       He sifted through battlefield photographs to see whether 
       his great-uncle appeared in any of them. He walked the 
       route Harry took on that fatal, final day of his life amid
       the mud of northern France. As he did so, he gained a 
       personal insight into what it was like to be a child of 
       the British Empire and to fight for king and country in 
       one of history's most devastating conflicts. And a figure 
       that had previously existed in the shadows was gradually 
       revealed to him. Great-Uncle Harry is an utterly 
       compelling account of an ordinary man who led an 
       extraordinary life. A blend of biography, history, 
       travelogue and personal memoir, this is Michael Palin at 
       his very finest.9781529152616 
600 10 Palin, Harry,|d1884-1916 
600 10 Palin, Michael|xFamily 
600 14 Palin, Michael 
600 17 Palin, Michael|2fast 
648  7 1914-1918|2fast 
650  0 World War, 1914-1918|zNew Zealand 
650  0 Soldiers|zNew Zealand|vBiography 
650  0 Soldiers|zGreat Britain|vBiography 
650  6 Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918|zNouvelle-Zélande 
650  7 Första världskriget 1914-1918|2sao 
650  7 Soldater|2sao 
650  7 Families|2fast 
651  7 Nya Zeeland|2sao 
651  7 Storbritannien|2sao 
651  7 Great Britain|2fast 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
655  7 Biographies.|2rvmgf