| Entry Text: | TWEED, Harold. A Life Revealed: The Story of HMS Dido and the War Diaries of Harold Tweed, Reporter and Antique Dealer. vi, 211p., bibliog., illus., index. Portsmouth: Dido Publications, 1998. ISBN: 0953331202.
Harold Tweed was born in 1910 and after school joined the local newspaper. When called up in 1941 he inevitably joined the Writers Branch. The diaries begin in 1942 and continue to March 1945. They give an interestingly detached and literate lower deck account of life on a busy cruiser. |
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