Ebook {Epub PDF} Home Fires Burning: The Great War Diaries of Georgina Lee 1914-1919 by Gavin Roynon

Home Fires Burning The Great War Diaries of Georgina Lee edited by Gavin Roynon turned out to be a good and enlightening read. Georgina Lee was a fairly well-connected upper middle class married lady and at the beginning of World War 1 she had a nine month old son called Harry. She decided to write her wartime diary- addressing it to Harry.  · Home Fires Burning The Great War Diaries of Georgina Lee edited by Gavin Roynon turned out to be a good and enlightening read. Georgina Lee was a fairly well-connected upper middle class married lady and at the beginning of World War 1 she had a nine month old son called Harry. She decided to write her wartime diary- addressing it to Harry. Written for her baby son, Georgina Lee’s diaries offer a comprehensive, day-by-day account of the First World War on the British Home Front. From the panic of August to the euphoria of , Mrs. Lee faithfully recorded the war's impact on civilian life, from the rush to hoard food and stock-market mayhem to conscription and air raids. Written for her baby son, Georgina Lee’s diaries offer a comprehensive, /5.

Author: Gavin Roynon ISBN Used-like N: The book pretty much look like a new book. There will be no stains or markings on the book, the cover is clean and crisp, the book will look unread, the only marks there may be are slight bumping marks to the edges of the book where it may have been on a shelf previously. The Dardanelles, a narrow mile-long strip of water that divides Europe from Asia, has been of great strategic significance for centuries. Carefully secured by international treaty, it was the closing of the Dardanelles that eventually brought the Ottoman Empire into the war as a German ally at the end of October Home Fires Burning The Great War Diaries of Georgina Lee edited by Gavin Roynon turned out to be a good and enlightening read. Georgina Lee was a fairly well-connected upper middle class married lady and at the beginning of World War 1 she had a nine month old son called Harry. She decided to write her wartime diary- addressing it to Harry.

Written for her baby son, Georgina Lee’s diaries offer a comprehensive, day-by-day account of the First World War on the British Home Front. From the panic of August to the euphoria of , Mrs. Lee faithfully recorded the war's impact on civilian life, from the rush to hoard food and stock-market mayhem to conscription and air raids. Written for her baby son, Georgina Lee’s diaries offer a comprehensive, day-by-day account of the First World War on the British Home Front. And in Home Fires Burning: The Great War Diaries of Georgina Lee, , Gavin Roynon has put together a very different account of the Great War from that we normally encounter. He's put together an account as seen from the fireside as it were, but which is no less poignant for that. Home Fires Burning: The Great War Diaries of Georgina Lee contains carefully selected and edited excerpts from the eleven-volume set of diaries kept by Georgina Lee, an Edwardian-era wife and mother who recorded her diaries of World War I for the benefit of her infant son. Her husband was a lawyer and her life was privileged, but the war still managed to make its destructive presence known to her and her family.