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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571279531
Date Published
16.06.2011
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Summary
Volume fourteen of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Beginning in the winter of 1940/1 and ending with the uneasy ‘sunrise’ of peace in 1945, this volume sees Phillip Maddison striving idealistically to hold a balance while lamenting the division and possible total ruin of Europe, as he copes with the day-to-day problems of running the East Anglian farm he has wrested from virtual wilderness. The pattern of everyday living in those years is lovingly evoked: the bomber-haunted nights, the petty profiteering and gossip of country life – all essential, but often unrecorded, elements of the wartime scene.
‘The sequence will stand, at the end, as a massive emotional record.’ Guardian
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