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Our Longest Days: A People's History of the Second World War by: The Writers of Mass Observation List Price: £8.99 City Travel Guides Price: £4.44 You Save: £4.55 (51%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 941.084 EAN: 9781846680885 ISBN: 1846680883 Label: Profile Books Ltd Manufacturer: Profile Books Ltd Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: March 06, 2008 Publisher: Profile Books Ltd Studio: Profile Books Ltd Sales Rank: 9642 Related Items:
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 Rating: - The People's WarOur Longest Days is a collection of excerpts from just a handful of the diarists who participated in the Mass Observation Project during the Second World War; a broad mix of housewives, conscientious objectors, students, voluntary service workers, land girls, those with army and air-force backgrounds, young and old; those who had seen the First World War, and those to whom the deprivations and horrors were altogether new. The collection covers the war from beginning to end, and each significant event of those six years is touched on by more than one diarist. Nella Last's diary was published (and filmed) separately, and this is unsurprising when you read these excerpts next to the others... although regularly domestic in nature, ... Read More: Rating: - The real "Home Front"In the 1930s, an amateur anthropologist (Tom Harrison), a documentary film-maker (Humphrey Jennings) and a journalist (Charles Madge) joined forces to set up an organisation that came to be known as Mass Observation. Running from 1937 until the 1950s it collected the thoughts and aspirations of many ordinary people. The nature of the project was that the invidiuals who took part were self-selected, and so were mostly middle class and reasonably well-educated. Their submissions were in the way of freely written diaries and in responses to specific enquiries. Our Longest Days picks from this vast archive just 15 people & shows us their reactions to daily life during the Second World War. Whilst this might seem limiting in ... Read More: Rating: - What it was really like in the Second World WarMass Observation in World War II recorded the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people. It's not a representative sample as the participants were self-selecting and tended to be from the educated middle class but with a variety of different age groups. There's a massive archive of entries for the Second World War and it's from this that the entries for ''Our Longest Days'' have been selected. In all just fifteen people provide the selected entries so you get a real feeling for their personal stories - some you'll like but there are some you won't. The short introduction to each chapter shows how the war was progressing, so you can see how the personal entries fit into the wider story. It could have been dry but the ... Read More: |
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