Witness To War: Diaries Of The Second World War Everyday Accounts By The Men, Women And Children From Both Sides by Richard J. Aldrich

An eye-opening retelling of the war experience through the private diaries kept by people from all walks of life and from many countries. The twentieth century’s Second World War announced its arrival from a distance, and as early as spring 1938 city-dwellers across Europe expected destruction on an epic scale. Men, women and children, most of whom had never kept a diary before, began to chronicle their own responses to what they knew would be a unique moment in world history. The cast of characters represented in these diaries – more than three hundred in number – ranges from politicians, soldiers and spies to ordinary citizens and housewives, from a London schoolboy watching V-1 doodlebugs from his bedroom window to an interned German refugee robbed and beaten by British troops. Many others are famous, and this collection includes rare material from figures such as Joseph Goebbels, Joyce Grenfell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Evelyn Waugh and Noël Coward.

Publisher:	Doubleday
Year:	2004
Binding:	Hardback
ISBN:	9780385606783
Condition:	Very Good
Description:	DJ; Heavy; Owner's Name inside. DJ sunned at the spine; page edges tanned.

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SKU: 1600855
Location: War