Amid the tumultuous start to the war, these ordinary British people are by turns apprehensive and despairing, spirited and cheerful - and always fascinatingly, vividly real. 9780091903879 We Are At War 41.4000 NZD InStock /shop/books/non-fiction /shop/books /shop/books/non-fiction/biography-memoir The highly-acclaimed diaries of ordinary people's lives in WWII, packaged as a massmarket woman's read for the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of warĮntering their world as they lived it, each diary entry is poignantly engrossing. And Maggie Joy Blunt tries day-by-day to keep a semblance of her ordinary life.Įntering their world as they lived it, each diary entry is poignantly engrossing. Eileen Potter organises evacuations for flea-ridden children, while mother-of-three Tilly Rice is frustrated to be sent to Cornwall. Christopher Tomlin, a writing-paper salesman for whom business is booming, longs to be called up like his brother. Pam Ashford, a woman who keeps her head when all around are losing theirs, writes with comic genius about life in her Glasgow shipping office. But where do fonts come from and why do we need so many Who is behind the businesslike subtlety of Times New Roman, the cool detachment of Arial, or the. We Are At War (English, Paperback) Simon Garfield. The highly-acclaimed diaries of ordinary people's lives in WWII, packaged as a massmarket woman's read for the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of war Buy Simon Garfield books and gifts, all with free worldwide delivery. We Are At War is the story of five everyday folk, who, living on the brink of chaos, recorded privately on paper their most intimate hopes and fears. Of all the accounts written about the Second World War, none are more compelling than the personal diaries of those who lived through it. The highly-acclaimed diaries of ordinary people's lives in WWII, packaged as a massmarket woman's read for the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of war

We Are At War by Simon Garfield