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Mrs Miles's Diary - The Wartime Journal of a Housewife on the Home Front (Paperback)
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Mrs Miles's Diary - The Wartime Journal of a Housewife on the Home Front (Paperback)
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At the outbreak of the Second World War Constance Miles was living
with her husband in the pretty Surrey village of Shere. A prolific
correspondent with a keen interest in current affairs, Constance
kept a war journal from 1939 to 1943, recording in vivid detail
what life was like for women on the Home Front. She writes of the
impact of evacuees, of food shortages and the creative uses of what
food there was, and the fears of the local populace, who wonder how
they will cope. She tells of refugees from central Europe billeted
in village houses and, later in the war, of the influx of American
servicemen. She travels frequently to London, mourning the
destruction of familiar landmarks and recording the devastation of
the Blitz, but still finds time for tea in the Strand. A woman of
strong convictions, Mrs Miles is not afraid to voice her opinion on
public figures and her worries about the social upheavals she feels
certain to follow the war. But most of all her journals record an
overlooked aspect of the conflict: the impact on communities
outside of major cities, who endured hardships we find hard to
imagine today. It is a fascinating document that makes for
compulsive reading.
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