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Mitchison Naomi
Among You Taking Notes.
Among You Taking Notes.
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Description: As in a good novel the people their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as they were then Guardian She writes vividly and movingly Daily Telegraph 26th September 1939. I am beginning to wonder whether the point of a place like this may be that it will keep alive certain ideas of freedom which might easily be destroyed in the course of this totalitarian war. Born in Edinburgh Naomi Mitchison spent most of the Second World War in the fishing village of Carradale on Kintyre her home until her death aged 101. Her life was crowded with incident and her attitudes to events predictably forceful original and honest. Throughout the war she kept a diary at the request of the research organisation Mass Observation in which she recorded both the momentous events of the time and also how one (albeit extraordinary) family and their friends lived what they hoped for and what actually happened. Her diaries developed far beyond the confines of a social document. Written with the passion of a poet combined with the intellectual curiosity of a radial thinker they provide a unique and valuable document of the period.
Title: Among You Taking Notes.
Author(s): Mitchison Naomi
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Barcode: 9781399602518
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 11/17/2022
Category: Second World War
Description: As in a good novel the people their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as they were then Guardian She writes vividly and movingly Daily Telegraph 26th September 1939. I am beginning to wonder whether the point of a place like this may be that it will keep alive certain ideas of freedom which might easily be destroyed in the course of this totalitarian war. Born in Edinburgh Naomi Mitchison spent most of the Second World War in the fishing village of Carradale on Kintyre her home until her death aged 101. Her life was crowded with incident and her attitudes to events predictably forceful original and honest. Throughout the war she kept a diary at the request of the research organisation Mass Observation in which she recorded both the momentous events of the time and also how one (albeit extraordinary) family and their friends lived what they hoped for and what actually happened. Her diaries developed far beyond the confines of a social document. Written with the passion of a poet combined with the intellectual curiosity of a radial thinker they provide a unique and valuable document of the period.
Title: Among You Taking Notes.
Author(s): Mitchison Naomi
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Barcode: 9781399602518
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 11/17/2022
Category: Second World War