My war diary, 1914-1918
by Bilbrough, Ethel M.
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BookPublisher: Ebury Press 2014ISBN: 9780091951115; 0091951119.Classification number: 940.341 BILSubject(s): Bilbrough -- Diaries | World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British | World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- Great BritainSubject: 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.
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| 940.3112 HAW Englanders and Huns | 940.3112 MAC The war that ended peace: how Europe abandoned peace for the First World War | 940.3112 MCM July 1914: countdown to war | 940.341 BIL My war diary, 1914-1918 | 940.341 HOC To end all wars: how the First World War divided Britain | 940.341 HOL Shots from the front: | 940.341 OLI Not forgotten |
Includes index
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.
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