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ROYNON, GAVIN - Edited by: : The Great War Diaries of Georgina Lee: HOME FIRES BURNING

UK.STROUD,GLOS.SUTTON PUBLISHING LIMITED,2006.

ISBN 0750943866.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt colour+monochrome montage'd photographic illustrated dw/dj,with brown+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,vi-xixpp [paginated] includes content list/table,foreword by Hew Strachan (Profesor of History of War,University of Oxford),acknowledgements,double-page Borough of Chelsea,1902 b/w map,editor's contribution, Books I-XI,16pp contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp134/5,b/w facsimile reproduction illustrations etc,interspersed throughout the text and the book,biographical note on diarist G. Lee by her daughter,a select bibliography and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,double-page b/w map of German Air Raids over London,1914-18,two separate family tree charts (Lee and Romer-Lee and descendants of Henry William Banks Davis RA and Georgina Harriet Lightfoot) and 2pp blanks at the rear. GEORGINA LYDIA LEE (1869-1965) moved in high society and,together with her husband Charles, had many contacts with members of the Establishment. In October 1913,aged 44,Georgina gave birth to her only child,Harry. On the outbreak of war,she sent Harry to her father's house in Wales,where he was looked after by his nanny. Georgina was closely involved with the domestic war.She describes the grave shortages that took hold as Britian was blockaded and the terror and carnage caused by the Zeppelin air raids that assailed London. Letters from the six serving members of her family alerted her to the despair at the size of the Regular Army in 1914,the reality of the shell shortage scandal in 1915,and the shortcomings of Sir Ian Hamilton in the Gallipoli campaign. By late 1916 Georgina shared her countrymen's anti-German feeling,as the scale of the Somme casualties became known.She writes of public figures such as Sir Edward Grey, Asquith, Churchill and Lloyd George and the events that shook British society in the midst of war - the sinking of the Lusitania; the shooting of Edith Cavell; the execution of Sir Roger Casement and the tragic death of Lord Kitchener. The eleven volumes of this war diary of an Edwardian lady,written to her baby son,Harry,now belong to his daughter,Ann de La Grange Sury. They offer a fascinating insight into how the British coped with the pressures and crises of the First World War on the Home Front. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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