Wartime

Juliet Gardiner's 'Wartime' provides a marvellously rich, and often entertaining, recreation of life on the Home Front, 1939-45, drawing on an enormous range of oral testimony and memoir. * The Scotsman *
From lost loves to crabby children to the sorrow of receiving the worst possible news, this is a remarkably personal picture of wartime life at home. * The Good Book Guide *
Irresistably unputdownable * Scotland On Sunday (Angus Calder) *
Danger, courage, deprivation, exhaustion, fear, humour and that old enemy 'boredom' were endured for six years. This exhilarating book is the voice of these people. * Despatches *
humorous and deeply moving * Despatches *
In a book replete with treasures, everyone will find a special jewel. * The Times Literary Supplement (David Stafford) *
Juliet Gardiner's book is ...wonderfully readable * BBC History Magazine *
after the torrents of film and forests of print devoted to her subject over the last four decades, it is exhilarating that Gardiner finds so many under-described aspects of the Home Front to document through her fresh witnesses. * BBC History Magazine *
utterly gripping * The Spectator *
Gardiner explores every aspect of the British home front, and presents these deeply moving moments superbly. I have no doubt that 'Wartime' will become the seminal work on Britain at war. * Daily Mail (Max Arthur) *
Plenty of nostalgia and war-time spirit in this comprehensive account of life on the Home Front * The Veteran *