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Tommy's War - A First World War Diary 1913-1918 (Paperback)
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Tommy's War - A First World War Diary 1913-1918 (Paperback)
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The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent
twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a
middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly
before the Great War to the early 1930s. Thomas Cairns Livingstone,
a mercantile book keeper, began his diaries in 1913, when he, his
wife Agnes and their son 'wee Tommy' set up house in the Glasgow
neighbourhood of Govanhill. For the next twenty years, Livingstone
dutifully recorded each day's events in his Collins diaries, from
small domestic dramas to troop movements as news of the Great War
filtered back to the anxious home front. Rescued during a house
clearance, the intricate details of these journals - interspersed
throughout with Livingstone's wonderfully warm and idiosyncratic
illustrations - provide a priceless record of the impression world
events were making on the ordinary people at home and an
extraordinary chronicle of the ups and downs of working-class life
in the period immediately before, during and after the First World
War. The details of the family's early life, notes about the
(usually dreich) Glasgow weather, and comments on the carnage on
the front and on the high seas, are written and illustrated with
such warmth and charm that the story of this very ordinary
household in the early part of the 20th century becomes completely
addictive.
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