The View From Corner Shop: Diary Of A Yorkshire Shop Assistant In Wartime Patricia Malcolmson Simon Schuster Ltd Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

A Lively Diary Chronicling The Ups And Downs Of Running Grocery Shop In Yorkshire Town During Rationing Years Second World War Kathleen Hey Spent Helping Her Sister Brother-In-Law Run Dewsbury From July 1941 To 1946 She Kept For Mass-Observation Project Recording Thoughts Concerns People Who Used What Makes Kathleen\ S Account Such Vivid Compelling Read Is Immediacy Writing Were Pulling Together On Surface (\ Bert Has Painted V-Sign Door…\ Writes) But There Are Plenty Tensions Underneath Shortage Food Extreme Difficulty Obtaining It Constant Thread Which Dominates Conversation More So Even Than Danger Bombardment Itself Sometimes Events Take Comic Turn Lack Onions Provokes Outrage Among Customers Writes \ I Believe They Think We Have Secret Onion Orgies At Night Use Them All Up Brooke Bond Tea Rep Complains That Need Not Be Rationed If Supply Ships Filled With Useless Goods\ As Corn Flakes Long-Running Saga About Non-Arrival Smedley\ Peas Chorus Voices Brings Us Herself Shines Through Strong Engaging Woman Refuses Give Doubts Or Misery Maintains Keen Sense Humour Under Most Trying Conditions Vibrant Addition Our Records Power Lies Its Juxtaposition Everyday Extraordinary Homely Universal Small Life Wartime Upheavals Nation Σελίδες: 352 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0421 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm