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We Shall Never Surrender : Wartime Diaries, 1939-1945 by Penelope Middelboe; Donald Fry; Christopher Grace is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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The story of the Second World War told through the voices of those who lived through it..Through the diaries of nine men and women We Shall Never Surrender tells the story of the war as they experienced it, whether at home struggling simply to keep going, in high office with direct influence on its outcome, or protesting against it. Some of them, like Alan Brooke, who became Chief of the General Staff, the politician Harold Nicolson or the pacifist writer Vera Brittain, are well known. Others Anne Garnett, the wife of a country solicitor, George Beardmore, a young husband and father with ambitions to become a novelist, or Clara Milburn, a contended wife and mother of an adult son are not. But in their diaries they all together with the diplomat Charles Ritchie, the novelist Naomi Mitchison and the resourceful and frequently unconventional Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly followed the war in their diaries from outbreak to victory. For some, keeping a diary was a way of documenting their hopes and fears for an unforeseen future. For others, it was a way of carefully preserving their lives on the page, uncertain in what state they would find the world the next time they woke. Together t

Who reads We Shall Never Surrender : Wartime Diaries, 1939-1945?

Author

Penelope Middelboe; Donald Fry; Christopher Grace

Publisher

Macmillan : [distributor] Macmillan Distribution (MDL)

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230744325

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History

Rating

3.29 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14