Churchill does not emerge as the universally popular wartime figure the country is not a fit and streamlined unit ready to fend off any foe, but an exhausted, divided and ailing one and while there are many examples of a Dunkirk spirit, there are just as many of spiteful behaviour and selfishness. World War II England (382 books) Discover new books on Goodreads Meet your next favorite book Join Goodreads Listopia World War II England Books set in WWII England that show the struggle and sacrifice the English people faced. Private Battles turns much of the traditional view of Britain's war effort on its head. The two new diarists are equally engrossing: Edward Stebbing, a 20-year-old discharged soldier living with a stern landlady in Essex and Larry du Parc, a research chemist from Hertfordshire, father of two children and proposer of several unique scientific ways to beat the Nazis. 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. Readers 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 were an episode of The Archers, even when she starts working for the Americans. 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. The challenges and struggles of the writers' own small battles give a startlingly immediate impression of what life was really like. Now, in Private Battles - as we follow four ordinary young people telling the story of how we barely survived the war - we have one of the most refreshing and original takes on the period ever published. Some features have failed to load due to an internet connectivity. Hundreds of books have been published on the Second World War, yet rarely do we read anything new. Product details page for We are at war by Simon Garfield is loaded.

We Are At War by Simon Garfield