My war diary, 1914-1918
Bilbrough, Ethel M.2014
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Part scrapbook, part memoir, this colourful and eloquent diary brims with vivid observations, providing a rare snapshot of what life was like on the home front during the First World War. Amateur artist, animal lover and keen writer of letters to the papers, Mrs Bilbrough witnessed the men leaving for war; the horses at Waterloo waiting to be transported to France; bombings and air raids; the introduction of the Daylight Saving Bill and food price increases. She also writes at her outrage at the shooting of British nurse Edith Cavell; her sadness when Lord Kitchener is drowned at sea; her alarm as zeppelins flew over Kent and her anger at the wide-ranging German atrocities.
Main title:
My war diary, 1914-1918 / Ethel M. Bilbrough.
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Imprint:
[London] : Ebury Press, 2014.
Collation:
viii, 232 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780091951115 (hbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
73853
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