The diaries of five people during the Second World War, an unmarried secretary, a mother with evacuated children, a social worker, a salesman and a writer. It illustrates the very human side and in many ways a very ordinary side of an extraordinary period as they live their lives but reflect on times. A memorable and highly absorbing work.
| Primary Genre | Biographies & Autobiographies |
Of all the accounts written about the Second World War, none are more compelling than the personal diaries of those who lived through it. We Are At War is the story of five everyday folk, who, living on the brink of chaos, recorded privately on paper their most intimate hopes and fears. Pam Ashford, a woman who keeps her head when all around are losing theirs, writes with comic genius about life in her Glasgow shipping office. Christopher Tomlin, a writing-paper salesman for whom business is booming, longs to be called up like his brother. Eileen Potter organises evacuations for flea-ridden children, while mother-of-three Tilly Rice is frustrated to be sent to Cornwall. And Maggie Joy Blunt tries day-by-day to keep a semblance of her ordinary life. Entering their world as they lived it, each diary entry is poignantly engrossing. Amid the tumultuous start to the war, these ordinary British people are by turns apprehensive and despairing, spirited and cheerful - and always fascinatingly, vividly real.
We are at War The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies
We are at War The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times is available in Paperback
We are at War The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times was written by Simon Garfield and published by Ebury Press
We are at War The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times has 440 pages
£17.99
