Among You Taking Notes...: The Wartime Diaries of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945 Tapa blanda - 2001

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Like New.

Orion Publishing Group, Limited. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Orion Publishing Group, Limited. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

2001 Phoenix Press// Light overall wear // Part of a social research, Mitchison captures the day-to-day of the lives around her during WWII // 350 pages, 215mm x 136mm x 27mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

Phoenix, UK, 2000. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. 350 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Phoenix, UK, 2000. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Naomi Mitchison, Scotland's grand old lady of literature and celebrated left-wing political thinker, kept a wartime diary at the request of Mass-Observation, a social research agency. From the day Hitler invaded Poland to the day America dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, she recorded this picture of how one (extraordinary) family and their friends lived...and what actually happened. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 184212093X. ISBN/EAN: 9781842120934. Inventory No: 23060176.. 9781842120934

London: Phoenix. Very Good+. 2000. Softcover. 184212093X . 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 1 1/4"; 350 pages; Soft cover has grey spine with white lettering. Light rubbing, scuffing to covers. Pages are clean and tight. 'From 1 September 1939, when Hitler invaded Poland, to 10 August 1945, when the Americans dropped the second Atomic Bomb, Naomi Mitchison kept a diary at the request of the social research organisation, Mass-Observation. But what she wrote developed far beyond the limits of a social document. Naomi's life during wartime, spent in the fishing village of Carradale on Kintyre, was crowded with incident, and her attitudes to events were always forceful, original, and honest. She records her thoughts as a poet, novelist, and left-wing political writer; as a hater of war who believed that the war must nevertheless be fought; as a working farmer, driving tractors and hoeing turnips; and, not least, as a wife, mother, and friend, coping with her husband's enforced absence in… Leer más

Phoenix. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!