Buy this book on-line VALERY,ANNE: : TALKING ABOUT THE WAR . . . 1939-45: A Personal View of the War in BritainLONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH LTD.,1991. ISBN 0718133919.
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ix-xpp+1-166pp [paginated] includes author's preface,list of abbreviations,intro,14 chapters, profuse contemporary b/w (the majority) and colour photographs throughout the text and the book, and an index.Plus [unpaginated],
half-title+title pages,dedication with b/w vignette photograph to recto,contents list/table also with b/w vignette photograph to recto.
Enlightening,moving and funny,this portrait of the Home Front combines a mixture of memoir,anecdote and comment with a unique collection of colour and b/w photographs,many censored and previously unpublished.
Blending her knowledge with research and a sometimes passionate anger,Anne Valery discusses,chapter
by chapter,such topics as censorship,sex,weather,entertainment,children and propaganda.With telling description she illuminates the fear and camaraderie of endless bombing; the heady freedom of women;
the poignant and often hilarious efforts of even the youngest to contribute to the war effort; and,
above all,the misery and chaos of daily life,sustained by a fierce humour and the will to make the best
of things.
Evocative in her use of detail - the bizarre ingredients of wartime dishes and homemade clothes,the nation's obsession with bodily functions - Anne Valery conveys what
the war was really like.In recalling
her own war as a child and young woman,she has a fund of entertaining
and painful stories: of her evacuation to an uncle and eccentric
aunts; of her life in Blitz-torn London; and of her service in the army. With the perception,irreverence and
toughness that make Anne Valery's voice so distinctly her own,plus a treasure-trove of illustrations,
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