As ‘Wartime’ did for the 1940s, this book will grasp the broad spectrum of events in the 1930s in the words of contemporary witnesses drawn from metropolitan... Læs mere
An alluring evocation of the glittering world of the fin de siecle by its emblematic aesthete
From the author of ‘Wartime’ comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population – the Blitz.
The definitive account of life on the Home Front during the Second World War, which was published in 2004 to universal critical acclaim.
The fascinating lives of the Brontë sisters, told in their own words through letters and diaries, illuminated by period illustrations and rarely seen examples of the sisters' paintings, of real and imaginary worlds.