We Are at War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
Simon Garfield
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.
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I loved this book. It is complied of extracts from an archive which I hadn't come across before called Mass Observations where everyday people keep diaries of their lives. The author has taken extracts of these for 5 people from the outbreak of WW2 until the end of 1941. I found it fascinating to read about the war from the persepctive of the man or woman in the street, gaining insight into the fears of the day and the daily preoccupation with such things as rationing. Highly recommended
excitable read and i felt like i can imagine how it was like to live bk in those days. very well written and couldnt put this book down.
A book made from the raw material of the Mass-Observation project, in which ordinary people in the U.K. kept diaries, this follows five people from the beginnings of World War II through the early days of the Blitz. It's a riveting look at the war from the civilian point of view, and a great thing to read after Joan Wyndham's diaries.
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