Comments on: The Sunday Salon – Looking Back at Wartime Britain

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:07:58 +0000

I’m going to have to write down those other titles! I’m reading Mollie Panter-Downes’s first novel, so I’ll wait on the New Yorker pieces, but it’s on my list. You’ll have to post on what you think of them!

By: StuckInABook

StuckInABook — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:28:00 +0000

Just wrote a long comment which got swallowed up… so shall summarise by saying thanks for these, and how much I’m looking forward to reading Our Longest Days at some point – sounds fascinating!

By: BooksPlease

BooksPlease — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:59:00 +0000

Thanks, Tara. My copy of Our Longest Days is from LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers. I hadn’t heard of London 1945 – another book to look out for!!

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:09:00 +0000

All of the books you’ve described sound so interesting. I heard of Our Longest Days on librarything, I think. I recently came across a copy of London 1945 by Maureen Waller that I picked up – have you heard of that one? I love the photo in the header, by the way.

By: BooksPlease

BooksPlease — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:26:00 +0000

Thanks everyone for your comments and the references to other books. Plenty to keep me going for a while yet.

More books on the war period that I have on my tbr list are Great Escape Stories and Resistance by Owen Sheers and on the military front I have Band of Brothers, and The Second World War by John Ray.

By: Sam.

Sam. — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:47:00 +0000

It sounds like a good book, I read Our Hidden Lives by Simon Garfield (using the same mass observation sources) and thoroughly enjoyed it, I think that I would enjoy this one too!

I love reading diaries, you get such a personal and simple view, all that minutiae that gives such an insight into what it was like!

By: Gentle Reader

Gentle Reader — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:45:00 +0000

Wow, great post. My dad lived thru WWII in Scotland, and has interesting stories about being a child then, which have inspired me to read about the period. So thanks for this list, it’s quite helpful!

By: Cath

Cath — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:19:00 +0000

Funnily enough I have Molly Panter-Downes ‘Peacetime’ stories on my library pile. I wasn’t able to find the Wartime volume but was interested to read anything at all by this much recommended author.

By: Ashleigh

Ashleigh — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:42:00 +0000

Tag you’re it! Share 6 random things about yourself, instructions here. Hope you’re having a good time with Les Misérables!

By: Kay

Kay — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:29:00 +0000

These books sound lovely. I love epistolary books. How I wish I had the time to read all the books that I would like. I’m looking forward to the last few episodes of Foyle’s War. We’ll have them in the summer.