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How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life During the Second World War
 
 
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How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life During the Second World War [Kindle Edition]

Norman Longmate (Author)
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'Minutely detailed, accurate, skilfully marshalled and engagingly written, it is quite the best social chronicle of the period I have read.' Spectator; 'An immense and impressive assembly...Must surely remain an invaluable essay in the remembrance of things past.' The Times; 'Superbly detailed and illustrated...From stirrup pumps to Spam, Norman Longmate's marvellously comprehensive panorama of the six shattering years misses nothing...Excellent.' Sunday Telegraph; 'Much of it is extremely interesting; some of it 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.' Observer

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'Minutely detailed, accurate, skilfully marshalled and engagingly written, it is quite the best social chronicle of the period I have read.' Spectator
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 3014 KB
  • Print Length: 592 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage Digital (26 Jan 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B0031Y9DQO
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #63,172 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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before in books about civilians in WW2. The accounts supplied by ordinary people are so poignant I cannot read them aloud to my husband without crying. I was born in 1949 and have always felt I had missed something when people spoke about it. Now I can "experience" it for myself. I have read 3 chapters, and already told my sister about it. She won't want to wait until I have finished it, she is getting one of her own.
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Mixed Memories 30 April 2011
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A book that brings back events and people that I had forgotten, being a book about all the things that effected the little people in their daily struggles, it brings back the uncertain feeling that we all faced, rumours travelled quickly which didnt help. My family consisted of my parents and six children, how my Mother managed to feed us all was a mystery. My brother was called up to the RAF, one sister to a factory making shells, another sister went into the Land Army so this was just a normal wartime family. I lived in a British Legion House on a small estate of 16 houses all residents were allocated a house on the basis of being disabled or widowed through injuries received through serving in the First World War, they must have all wondered what was required to be done to keep the peace!!
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How We Lived Then 28 Jun 2010
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I have found the book to be extreamly informative. But written in a story type of way instead of just presenting the bare facts. Anyone interested in family History will find this very entertaining and usefull.
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