Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Beginning in the weeks before the war, and ending a year later with the Battle of Britain, the book will tell the story of the 'phoney war' on the home front. 'We Are At War' continues Simon Garfield' s successful formula of interweaving five ordinary lives from the Mass-Observation archive begun with 'Our Hidden Lives,' Of all the accounts written about the Second World War, none are more compelling than the personal diaries composed by those who lived through it. Amid the tumultuous start to the war, these ordinary British people are by turns apprehensive and despairing, spirited and cheerful - and always fascinatingly, vividly real.

Entering their world as they lived it, each diary entry is poignantly engrossing. And Maggie Joy Blunt tries day-by-day to keep a semblance of her ordinary life. We Are At War and Private Battles - provided unique insights into the. Our Hidden Lives, We Are At War and Private Battles - were bestsellers. Eileen Potter organises evacuations for flea-ridden children, while mother-of-three Tilly Rice is frustrated to be sent to Cornwall. Simon Garfield meets the people behind the typefaces and along the way learns why. Buy Just My Type by Simon Garfield (9781846683022) from Boomerang Books. Christopher Tomlin, a writing-paper salesman for whom business is booming, longs to be called up like his brother. : We Are at War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times (9780091903879) by Garfield, Simon and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Pam Ashford, a woman who keeps her head when all around are losing theirs, writes with comic genius about life in her Glasgow shipping office. We Are At War is the story of five everyday folk, who, living on the brink of chaos, recorded privately on paper their most intimate hopes and fears. Of all the accounts written about the Second World War, none are more compelling than the personal diaries of those who lived through it.

We Are At War by Simon Garfield