Mainly books, but also other pleasing things
Posted in Britain, History, Memoirs, Non-fiction, World War Two on Sep 3rd, 2009
… Neville Chamberlain broadcast that Britain was at war with Germany. In Wartime Britain 1939-1945 by Juliet Gardiner she quotes from the diary of a twenty-four year old civil servant living in Croydon on 3 September 1939: The sun is shining, the garden never looked lovelier – everything is in bloom. Tiger [the cat] lies there [...]
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 [...]
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