We Are At War - The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times

Informationen zum Autor Simon Garfield Klappentext "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. Zusammenfassung Of all the accounts written about the Second World War, none are more compelling than the personal diaries of those who lived through it.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Garfield, Garfield Simon
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.03.2006
• EAN: 9780091903879
• ISBN: 978-0-09-190387-9
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Oral History, European History, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949