We Are At War continues Simon Garfield's successful formula of interweaving five ordinary lives from the Mass-Observation archive begun with Our Hidden Lives. Of all the accounts written about the Second World War, none are more compelling than the personal diaries composed by those who lived through it. Beginning in the weeks before the war, and ending a year later with the Battle of Britain, the book will tell the story of the 'phoney war' on the home front. The five ordinary diarists are: Rose Ashofrd, a 37-year-old ...
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We Are At War continues Simon Garfield's successful formula of interweaving five ordinary lives from the Mass-Observation archive begun with Our Hidden Lives. Of all the accounts written about the Second World War, none are more compelling than the personal diaries composed by those who lived through it. Beginning in the weeks before the war, and ending a year later with the Battle of Britain, the book will tell the story of the 'phoney war' on the home front. The five ordinary diarists are: Rose Ashofrd, a 37-year-old clerk for a large Glasgow coal merchant, Kenneth Fairfax, a 25-year-old textile salesman living with his parents in Birmingham, Elleen Potter, a social worker in central London, Christopher Tomlin, a God-fearing printer's agent doing the rounds in Preston and Maggle Joy Blunt, familiar to readers of Our Hidden Lives as an elegant and reflective writer.
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