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Dr JOSEPH PEARSON was born in Canada, studied at Middlebury College in Vermont and has a doctorate in Modern History from the University of Cambridge. He taught at Columbia University and currently lectures at the Barenboim-Said Akademie and New York University in Berlin. He is the author of My Grandfather’s Knife (The History Press) and Berlin (Reaktion Books), a portrait of the city in which he now lives and works.
25th March, 2022 in Local & Family History, Military
A knife, a diary, a recipe book, a string instrument, and a cotton pouch. Each belonged to an individual in their twenties during the Second World War: I talked to elderly family members, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances – people drawn from everyday life – asking them the s…
