The Guardian Book of Wartime Country Diaries - Hardcover

Martin Wainwright Ed

9780852650806: The Guardian Book of Wartime Country Diaries

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0852650809 ISBN 13: 9780852650806

Publisher: Guardian Newspapers Ltd, 2007

The twentieth century saw two world wars and countless other conflicts whose effects on society have been well documented. Here you will find the less familiar story of how these international struggles managed to reach into the quietest corners of the British countryside. From Battle of Britain vapour trails looping over summer cornfields and affecting local hawks and waterfowl to the lone ringed bird who limped in from invaded Czechoslovakia, diarists note down and discuss the momentous changes wrought by wars on British country life. Women and children fetching in the harvest as their menfolk fight in Flanders. Italian prisoners of war singing opera in Herefordshire orchards. Mobilising the Women's Institute to make jam for the war effort. Beautifully written and subtly observed, these rediscovered treasures reveal how for all its soft beauty, Britain's rural landscape has been shaped, in part, by man at war with man.

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Twice in the 20th century, the world was engulfed by warfare whose battles and effects on society have been much-chronicled. This is the less familiar story of how the struggles between the Great European powers and against Hitler reached into the quietest corners of the British countryside. While Battle of Britain vapour trails loop over summer cornfields, diarists discuss the effect of planes on hawks and water-fowl. A lone ringed bird limps in from vanished Czechoslovakia. A naturalist studies the insect and plant life of a bomb crater. Women and children bring in the harvest as their menfolk fight in Flanders. The century's other wars, from Abyssinia to Iraq, are also noted.

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