Wartime
Britain 1939-1945
$36.73
- Paperback
800 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2005
Summary
Juliet Gardiner’s critically acclaimed book - the first in a generation to tell the people’s story of the Second World War - offers a compelling and comprehensive account of the pervasiveness of war on the Home Front. The book has been commended for its inclusion of many under-described aspects of the Home Front, and alongside familiar stories of food shortages, evacuation and the arrival of the GIs, are stories of Conscientious Objectors, persecuted Italians living in Britain and Lumber Jill…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780755310289 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0755310284 |
| Author: | Juliet Gardiner |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Review |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 800 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2005 |
| Weight: | 550g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 137mm x 37mm |
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Critics Review
‘Utterly gripping.’
Juliet Gardiner’s ‘Wartime’ provides a marvellously rich, and often entertaining, recreation of life on the Home Front, 1939-45, drawing on an enormous range of oral testimony and memoir. - The Scotsman
From lost loves to crabby children to the sorrow of receiving the worst possible news, this is a remarkably personal picture of wartime life at home. - The Good Book GuideIrresistably unputdownable - Scotland On Sunday (Angus Calder)Danger, courage, deprivation, exhaustion, fear, humour and that old enemy ‘boredom’ were endured for six years. This exhilarating book is the voice of these people. - Despatcheshumorous and deeply moving - DespatchesIn a book replete with treasures, everyone will find a special jewel. - The Times Literary Supplement (David Stafford)Juliet Gardiner’s book is …wonderfully readable - BBC History Magazineafter the torrents of film and forests of print devoted to her subject over the last four decades, it is exhilarating that Gardiner finds so many under-described aspects of the Home Front to document through her fresh witnesses. - BBC History MagazineAbout The Author
Juliet Gardiner
Juliet Gardiner is a historian with wide academic and commercial credentials. She spent five years as editor of History Today magazine, and has been Academic Director at Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Head of Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University. She has contributed widely to the UK’s national press and her television experience includes being a member of the on-screen member of the ‘war cabinet’ for The 1940s House, for which she was also the historical consultant. She is the author of ten books.
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