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The Diaries of Nella Last - Writing in War and Peace (Paperback, Main) Loot Price: R379
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The Diaries of Nella Last - Writing in War and Peace (Paperback, Main): Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson

The Diaries of Nella Last - Writing in War and Peace (Paperback, Main)

Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson

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'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed three volumes of her vivid and moving diaries, written during the Second World War and its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project - and the basis for BAFTA-winning drama Housewife 49 starring Victoria Wood. The Diaries of Nella Last, brings together into a single volume the best of Nella's prolific outpourings, including a great deal of new, unpublished material from the war years. Capturing the everyday trials and horrors of wartime Britain and the nation's transition into peacetime and beyond, Nella's touching and often humorous narrative provides an invaluable historical portrait of what daily life was like for ordinary people in the 1940s and 1950s. Outwardly Nella's life was commonplace; but behind this mask were a penetrating mind and a lively pen. As David Kynaston said on Radio 4, she 'will come to be seen as one of the major twentieth century English diarists.'

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Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2012
First published: February 2013
Authors: Patricia Malcolmson • Robert Malcolmson
Dimensions: 216 x 135 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 576
Edition: Main
ISBN-13: 978-1-84668-546-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War
Books > Biography > General
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LSN: 1-84668-546-X
Barcode: 9781846685460

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