Description
But the Season of 1939 was different: it was to be the last. And like many a finale, it lives on in memory as a lovely, enchanted dream, all the more beautiful for the horror and destruction that would follow so soon.
Based on a wealth of first-hand reminiscences, press clippings, and memorabilia, 1939: The Last Season of Peace is a fascinating portrait of this fairy tale about to end. Itcaptures the end of an era as it recreates a world whose inhabitants still believed in empire and tradition. It is a vivid picture of a generation suspended in a brief moment of sunlit summer glory, before the gathering storm of World War II swept it all away.
Author: Angela Lambert
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 10/15/2012
Pages: 365
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9781448205196
ISBN10: 1448205190
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
- Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- Social Science | Customs & Traditions
About the Author
Angela Lambert (1940 - 2007) was a British journalist, art critic and author, best known for the novel A Rather English Marriage.
Born as Angela Maria Helps to a civil servant and a German-born housewife, she was unhappy when sent to Wispers School, a girls' boarding school in Sussex, where by the age of 12 she had decided that she wanted to be a writer. She went to St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she read politics, philosophy and economics. She began her career as a journalist in 1969, working for ITN before joining The Independent newspaper in 1988.
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