Published: 1 August 2002
ISBN: 9780712668323
Imprint: Pimlico
Format: Trade Paperback
Pages: 592
RRP: $45.00

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How We Lived Then

History of Everyday Life During the Second World War, A

Norman Longmate

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'Minutely detailed, accurate, skilfully marshalled and engagingly written, it is quite the best social chronicle of the period I have read.' Spectator

'An immense and impressive assembly ... Must surely remain an invaluable essay in the remembrance of things past.' The Times'Superbly detailed and illustrated ... From stirrup pumps to Spam, Norman Longmate's marvellously comprehensive panorama missesnothing ... 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

Published: 1 August 2002
ISBN: 9780712668323
Imprint: Pimlico
Format: Trade Paperback
Pages: 592
RRP: $45.00

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Norman Longmate

Norman Longmate was born in Berkshire, and educated at Christ's Hospital. After war service he read modern history at Worcester College, Oxford. He subsequently worked as a journalist in Fleet Street, as a producer of history programmes for the BBC, and for the BBC Secretariat. In 1981 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and in 1983 he left the BBC to become a full-time writer. He has written more than twenty books, mainly on the Second World War and on Victorian social history.

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Praise for How We Lived Then

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