Mrs Miles's Diary

Mrs Miles's Diary
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 359
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ISBN-10 : 9781471125591
ISBN-13 : 1471125599
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Book Synopsis Mrs Miles's Diary by : Constance Miles

Download or read book Mrs Miles's Diary written by Constance Miles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better times will come again - a fascinating insight into how ordinary people cope in extraordinary circumstances. At the outbreak of the Second World War Constance Miles was living with her husband in the pretty Surrey village of Shere. A prolific correspondent with a keen interest in current affairs, Constance kept a war journal from 1939 to 1943, recording in vivid detail what life was like for women on the Home Front. She writes of the impact of evacuees, of food shortages and the creative uses of what food there was, and the fears of the local populace, who wonder how they will cope. She tells of refugees from central Europe billeted in village houses and, later in the war, of the influx of American servicemen. She travels frequently to London, mourning the destruction of familiar landmarks and recording the devastation of the Blitz, but still finds time for tea in the Strand. In a time when people were asked to put national interests above their own personal comfort and liberty, a time when they, too, were reassured that they’d meet loved ones again, Mrs Miles’s diaries makes for compulsive reading.


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