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E. J. Rudsdale's Journals of Wartime Colchester (Paperback, Uk Ed.)
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E. J. Rudsdale's Journals of Wartime Colchester (Paperback, Uk Ed.)
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E.J. Rudsdale's role as a museum curator and air-raid shelter
superintendent at Colchester Castle during the Second World War
gave him the perfect opportunity to record life on the Home Front
in his journals. Seventy years later, the selected extracts
gathered here provide a remarkable insight into wartime life.
Rudsdale's writing is characterised throughout by his wry
observations of wartime officialdom and his lack of conformity with
the prevailing views of the time. He was a pacifist, which gives
his journals an unusual perspective. However, even as a civilian he
could not escape the conflict, living in a garrison town threatened
by invasion and regular bombing raids. His journals, therefore,
record anxious and tragic events, but throughout it all his sense
of humour is never diminished. This absorbing collection
demonstrates Rudsdale's ability to bring a scene vividly to life
and each account highlights the daily pressures that people endured
as they valiantly tried to carry on with normal life in spite of
the war.
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