- Published: 1 August 2002
- ISBN: 9780712668323
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 592
- RRP: $45.00
How We Lived Then
History of Everyday Life During the Second World War, A
- Published: 1 August 2002
- ISBN: 9780712668323
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 592
- RRP: $45.00
An immense and impressive assembly-Must surely remain an invaluable essay in the remembrance of things past.
Times
Superbly detailed and illustrated. From stirrup pumps to Spam, Norman Longmate's marvellously comprehensive panorama misses nothing. Excellent.
Sunday Telegraph
A landmine of information covering every field of civilian life in wartime from the grandeurs of the blitz to the miseries of dried eggs and the six-inch bath.
Cyril Connolly
Much of it is extremely interesting; some of it is fascinatingly out-of-the-way; and all of it contributes to building up a true picture of everyday life in England from September 1939 to August 1945.
Observer
For those who lived through those wartime years, How We Lived Then will be not merely a refreshment of memory-but also an enlargement of experience; how other people we did not meet lived then.
Times Literary Supplement