We Are At War
The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2006
Summary
The highly-acclaimed diaries of ordinary people’s lives in WWII, packaged as a mass-market woman’s read for the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
Of all the accounts written about the Second World War, none are more compelling than the personal diaries of those who lived through it. We Are At War is the story of five everyday folk, who, living on the brink of chaos, recorded privately on paper their most intimate hopes and fears.
Pam Ashford, a woman who keeps …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780091903879 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0091903874 |
| Author: | Simon Garfield |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | Ebury Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 302g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 126mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
“Wonderful stuff” Sunday Times “Fascinating, delightful, illuminating. The diarists soon become like old friends … and make our wartime past seem no more distant than yesterday” Mail on Sunday “It’s always easy to imagine people in this period becalmed in a sepia-toned limbo. This book tells the messy, but far more interesting, truth” Time Out “Few books have so successfully stepped inside the minds of the British people during wartime” Metro “A fascinating account of everyday life in Britain” Good Housekeeping
Simon Garfield
Simon Garfield is the author of ten highly acclaimed books of non-fiction, including Mauve, The Error World, and The Wrestling. His edited diaries from the Mass Observation Archive—Our Hidden Lives, We Are at War, and Private Battles—provided unique insights into the Second World War and its aftermath. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham Prize.
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