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Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Non-fiction, Sunday Salon on May 18th, 2008
This week I’ve concentrated on reading Our Longest Days: A People’s History of the Second World War by the writers of Mass Observation, edited by Sandra Koa Wing. I’ve been completely immersed in the war years through this fascinating and personal book. Mass Observation is a social research organisation, founded in 1937, with the aim [...]
Posted in Books, Sunday Salon on May 11th, 2008
This week I’ve been reading more of Our Longest Days: a People’s History of the Second World War by the Writers of Mass Observation. It’s composed of diary entries from a number of people of their personal observations, thoughts, and hopes. The one criticism I have of it is that I’m finding it difficult to [...]
Posted in Books, Sunday Salon on May 4th, 2008
I’m late coming to the Sunday Salon today, because just as I was finishing writing this post we had a power cut, which lasted nearly four hours and when it came back on I found that I hadn’t saved all of it!Last Sunday the heavy rain that had been forecast held off for our walk [...]
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