At age fourteen, Donald Friend declared: ‘Have done quite a lot of painting lately, and have made up my mind that I shall be an artist. And I shall be famous!’ Friend achieved his aim. He also left behind more than two million words of brilliant, intimate diary entries—one of the greatest acts of autobiography in Australian history.This is the first single-volume selection of these writings and includes material from the two ‘lost’ wartime diaries recently unearthed in America by Ian Britain.
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Cat no: 3698