'Flying Officer Granville Allen Mawer features in the annals of his country only as a footnote or two to the official History of the Second World
War, published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, which recorded
some of his victories in the skies over the English Channel and Darwin between 1941 and 1943.
'He did not survive to make a mark in the postwar world or to enjoy the peace and security for which he fought, but he
did leave his family with a candid and
disconcerting record of the hopes and fears, triumphs and follies of three crowded years.
'Sixty-eight years on, his son and namesake has
edited Mawer's war diary to reveal the impact of war, not only on the diarist but also on those who waited, worried and eventually mourned.'
Source: Promotional flyer for National Library of Australia book launch.
Sighted: 04/10/2011
