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. We Are At War continues Simon Garfields successful formula of interweaving five ordinary lives from the Mass-Observation archive begun with Our Hidden Lives. Entering their world as they lived it, each diary entry is poignantly engrossing. We are at war (2007 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. And Maggie Joy Blunt tries day-by-day to keep a semblance of her ordinary life. We are at war by Simon Garfield, 2007, BBC Audiobooks edition, in English - Large print ed. Eileen Potter organises evacuations for flea-ridden children, while mother-of-three Tilly Rice is frustrated to be sent to Cornwall. We are at war (2007 edition) Open Library It looks like you're offline. Christopher Tomlin, a writing-paper salesman for whom business is booming, longs to be called up like his brother. We are at war by Simon Garfield, 2007, BBC Audiobooks edition, in English - Large print ed.

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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. Articles and posts written and edited by Simon Garfield. 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. This is a story about Kendo Nagasaki, Mick McManus, Les Kellet, Klondyke Kate and Dr Death - men and women who used to fight each other every night for. Of all the accounts written about the Second World War, none are more compelling than the personal diaries of those who lived through it.

We Are At War by Simon Garfield