Nella Last's War: A Mother's Diary 1939-45
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A landmark work of wartime social history, Nella Last's War: A Mother's Diary 1939-45 chronicles the daily life of an ordinary British housewife in Barrow-in-Furness through six years of the Second World War, drawn from her remarkable contributions to the Mass Observation project. With unflinching honesty and quiet literary grace, Last details the emotional and domestic realities of life on the home front — rationing, air raids, anxiety for her sons in service, and the slow transformation of her own sense of self. Her voice is intimate yet universal, capturing the resilience and quiet heroism of millions of women who held families and communities together while the world fractured around them. What emerges is not merely a historical document but a deeply human portrait of a woman who discovered, through the crucible of war, a strength and independence she had never before claimed as her own.
Author: Nella Last
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, Falling Wall Press
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A landmark work of wartime social history, Nella Last's War: A Mother's Diary 1939-45 chronicles the daily life of an ordinary British housewife in Barrow-in-Furness through six years of the Second World War, drawn from her remarkable contributions to the Mass Observation project. With unflinching honesty and quiet literary grace, Last details the emotional and domestic realities of life on the home front — rationing, air raids, anxiety for her sons in service, and the slow transformation of her own sense of self. Her voice is intimate yet universal, capturing the resilience and quiet heroism of millions of women who held families and communities together while the world fractured around them. What emerges is not merely a historical document but a deeply human portrait of a woman who discovered, through the crucible of war, a strength and independence she had never before claimed as her own.