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Private Battles: Our Intimate Diaries: How the War Almost Defeated Us,Simon Gar

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Title
Private Battles: Our Intimate Diaries: How the War Almost Defeat
ISBN
9780091910761

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When We Win This War is the third and final part of Simon Garfield's hugely popular and critically acclaimed trilogy of diaries drawn from the Mass Observation Archive. Beginning at the height of the Blitz in 1940 and ending with weary victory four-and-a-half years later, this is the intimate story of five ordinary lives caught up in the most dramatic of events. eaders of Our Hidden Lives and We Are At War will be familiar with two of the diarists- Maggie Joy Blunt, the perceptive but frustrated young writer living alone near Slough, and Pam Ashford, the shipping clerk in Glasgow writing of office life as if it was a soap-opera, even when she starts working for the Americans. The three new diarists are equally appealing- Penny Wildwood, a retired nurse living in Sussex who believes she can run the war better than anyone; Philip Grout, a 20-year-old shop assistant living with a stern landlady in Essex; and Harry du Parc, a research chemist from Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, father of many children and proposer of many unique scientific ways to beat the Nazis. eaving entries from each of the five diarists into a compelling narrative, Simon Garfield has once again created an authenti

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Ebury Publishing
ISBN-13
9780091910761
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Publication Year
2006
Topic
History
Book Title
Private Battles
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Language
English
Type
Textbook
Author
Simon Garfield
Format
Hardcover

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850 g

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United Kingdom
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Simon Garfield

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      This is a good read if you are interested in the civilian side of the second world war. Just as compelling as his previous book.

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