![]() ![]() The three new diarists are equally appealing- Penny Wildwood, a retired nurse living in Sussex who believes she can run the war better than anyone Philip Grout, a 20-year-old shop assistant living with a stern landlady in Essex and Harry du Parc, a research chemist from Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, father of many children and proposer of many unique scientific ways to beat the Nazis. This mint unread copy is bound in cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. Simon Garfield (Editor) Ebury Press, London. eaders of Our Hidden Lives and We Are At War will be familiar with two of the diarists- Maggie Joy Blunt, the perceptive but frustrated young writer living alone near Slough, and Pam Ashford, the shipping clerk in Glasgow writing of office life as if it was a soap-opera, even when she starts working for the Americans. PRIVATE BATTLES How The World Almost Defeated Us. Beginning at the height of the Blitz in 1940 and ending with weary victory four-and-a-half years later, this is the intimate story of five ordinary lives caught up in the most dramatic of events. ![]() ![]() When We Win This War is the third and final part of Simon Garfield's hugely popular and critically acclaimed trilogy of diaries drawn from the Mass Observation Archive. ![]()
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