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This book was a birthday gift. It combines many of my favorite reading genres: history, biography, WWII, British life. The book combines current commentary from the author as well as many extracts from her personal diaries and letters. It begins even before her birth and introduces us to her family long before WWII. And we watch as she grows up into a teenager who enlists as an antiaircraft gunner in WWII while her father, Britain's Prime minister, runs the war. It ends with her marriage shortly after the war ends.
It's quite well written, and her diary entries are just unbelievable. She chats about the highest ranking military and government officials, not just in Britain but the world, with such familiarity. What an interesting life to have lived, seeing so much of major world events from the inside and knowing intimately the leaders making the calls.
As always when reading history books I learned bits that I'd previously not known. Excellent read! Not at all a dry or boring history either as it's painted through the eyes of a young woman with a fun social life, dear friends and a family connected to the highest places in the world.
It's quite well written, and her diary entries are just unbelievable. She chats about the highest ranking military and government officials, not just in Britain but the world, with such familiarity. What an interesting life to have lived, seeing so much of major world events from the inside and knowing intimately the leaders making the calls.
As always when reading history books I learned bits that I'd previously not known. Excellent read! Not at all a dry or boring history either as it's painted through the eyes of a young woman with a fun social life, dear friends and a family connected to the highest places in the world.
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