How We Lived Then - A History Of Everyday Life During The Second World War
by LONGMATE, NORMAN
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Hutchinson & Co 1971. FIRST EDITION, Super Octavo hardcover, tan buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 568pp., illus, VG (moderate bruising and scuffing to board and spine extrems, moderate rubbing to boards and spine, mild tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG- (heavy curling to edges, heavy creasing and rubbing to spine extrems, 4cm closed tear to top right corner of front face, 4cm closed tear to bottom left corner of front face, 2cm tear to top right corner of rear face)
Synopsis
Minutely detailed, accurate, skilfully marshalled and engagingly written, it is quite the best social chronicle of the period I have read.' SpectatorAn immense and impressive assembly-Must surely remain an invaluable essay in the remembrance of things past. - TimesSuperbly detailed and illustrated. From stirrup pumps to Spam, Norman Longmate's marvellously comprehensive panorama misses nothing. Excellent. - Sunday TelegraphA landmine of information covering every field of civilian life in wartime from the grandeurs of the blitz to the miseries of dried eggs and the six-inch bath.Much of it is extremely interesting; some of it is fascinatingly out-of-the-way; and all of it contributes to building up a true picture of everyday life in England from September 1939 to August 1945. - ObserverFor those who lived through those wartime years, How We Lived Then will be not merely a refreshment of memory-but also an enlargement of experience; how other people we did not meet lived then. - Times Literary Supplement
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- How We Lived Then - A History Of Everyday Life During The Second World War
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- LONGMATE, NORMAN
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co 1971
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- modern first edition history ww2 wwii civilian life living
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