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Coping with the Everyday in a Dangerous World,
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This review is from: We Are at War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times (Paperback)
Continuing the thread begun in Hidden Lives, Simon Garfield offers selections from the Mass-Observation Project diaries of five people caught up in the preparations and then the beginning of the infamous Blitz. The uncertainty, the anger, the fear; it's all here and it leaps off of the pages in a way that keeps you turning them.
Sometimes the diarists are not particularly likeable - you encounter racism and defeatist attitudes at certain points. But that is something that makes this volume particularly interesting. Knowing that these pages are going to be read by others, the diarists are still painfully honest in their fears and their prejudices. Very enlightening, and highly recommended, especially as a companion volume to Hidden Lives. |
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We Are at War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times by Simon Garfield (Paperback - September 1, 2005)
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