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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Juliet Gardiner |
ISBN: | 0755310268 9780755310265 0755310276 9780755310272 |
OCLC Number: | 56642467 |
Description: | xiv, 658 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Other Titles: | Britain, 1939-1945 |
Responsibility: | Juliet Gardiner. |
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Gathered from an impressive array of sources, these rich and varied voices tell of blackout, of digging for victory and the arrival of the gum-chewing GIs. There is sadness, sacrifice, love and laughter, which together paint a comprehensive and sensitive portrait of what is was to live in a nation at war. - Mail on SundayDanger, courage, deprivation, exhaustion, fear, humour and that old enemy 'boredom' were endured for six years. This exhilarating book is the voice of these people. - DespatchesJuliet 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 ScotsmanFrom 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)humorous 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 Magazine Read more...

