Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49 -- Nella Last

from Oreillynsf

The British Mass Observation Project was an early form of social history that asked ordinary Britons to keep and submit diaries about their daily lives and experiences. Nella Last was their most prolific writer, and her diary of the Second World War is an amazing read and a profoundly personal pe...

from ChrisNewton

I love this book, and its sequels. For some reason I don't quite understand, it just kills me. Well maybe not quite kills me, more the opposite, like maybe there is still some hope for the human race, as found in this dear faceless middle-aged ordinary WWII housewife in the north of England who s...

from rexvaughan

Nella last harbored a secret longing to "write a book" but felt she was not clever enough. Well, she was and she did and it is a wonderful account of life during WWII, but away from the "big events" and "major figures" we read about in the histories of that time. Nella made it her own war in many...

from Kasthu

Nella Last's War is a compilation of diary entries that Nella Last, a middle-aged housewife, write for the Mass Observation Project during WWII. In her diary, which she later continued on after the war and into the 1950s, Nella chronicles her everyday life, living in Barrow-in-Furness. The diary ...

from seoulful

An amazing account of daily life in wartime England as recorded by a recruit of the Mass-Observation Project. Nella Last, a housewife living in the small seaside town of Barrow-in Furness agreed to keeping a diary of her thoughts and activities to fulfill the ambition of the project to put on rec...