- GLC#
- GLC09120.362-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 25, 1944
- Author/Creator
- Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945
- Title
- to Estelle Spero
- Place Written
- Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
- Pagination
- 5 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 26.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
- Sub-Era
- World War II
Diamond describes writing to the wife of one of his men about his death, an experience that made him realize the "ridiculous emptiness of words".
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