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ISBN: 9789999822312
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Languages : en
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1939 Last Season of Peace
Author: 1939: The Last Season of Peace
Author: Angela LambertPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1448204755
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
First published in 1989, this is an account of the oldest of traditions. It was called the London Season, and for three centuries it had been a time of fashionable suppers and brilliant balls that introduced England's most aristocratic and eligible girls to society. Though by 1939 the stately gavottes and minuets had long since given way to waltzes and fox-trots, the cream of young womanhood still curtsied low before the Queen and then went out to dance the night away with the young men they would one day marry. But the Season of 1939 was different: it was to be the last. And like many a finale, it lives on in memory as a lovely, enchanted dream, all the more beautiful for the horror and destruction that would follow so soon. Based on a wealth of first-hand reminiscences, press clippings, and memorabilia, 1939: The Last Season of Peace is a fascinating portrait of this fairy tale about to end. It captures the end of an era as it recreates a world whose inhabitants still believed in empire and tradition. It is a vivid picture of a generation suspended in a brief moment of sunlit summer glory, before the gathering storm of World War II swept it all away.
1939, the Last Season of Peace
Author: Angela LambertPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780297795391
Category : Elite (Social sciences)
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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1939: The Last Season
Author: Anne de CourcyPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780225776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War. The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The young debutante daughters of the upper classes were presented to the King and Queen to mark their acceptance into the new adult world of their parents. They sparkled their way through a succession of balls and parties and sporting events. The Season brought together influential people not only from Society but also from Government at the various events of the social calendar. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain chaperoned his debutante niece to weekend house parties; Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, lunched with the Headmaster of Eton; Cabinet Ministers encountered foreign Ambassadors at balls in the houses of the great hostesses. As the hot summer drew on, the newspapers filled with ever more ominous reports of the relentless progress towards war. There was nothing to do but wait - and dance. The last season of peace was nearly over.
August 1939 : the last days of peace
Author: Nichol FlemingPublisher:
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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August 1939
Author: Nicholas FlemingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Last Days of Peace 1939
Author: The Last Months of Peace
Author: The Last Days of Peace 1939
Author: Millions Like Us
Author: Virginia NicholsonPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014103789X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
'Ambitious, humane and absorbing . . . this book could not be better.' Spectator 'A deeply satisfying chronicle of women's lives at a time when this nation was tested as never before. Introduces you to hundreds of wonderful women - a magnificent regiment - you wish you had met in the flesh, and when you close it you feel enlarged as well as amazed by their experiences. Women were fire watchers, ARP workers, first aiders, ambulance drivers, police officers, messengers, transport, demolition and repair workers. A rich, entwined narrative, which moves in and out of the lives of an absorbing cast of characters during ten years.' Daily Mail 'A magnificent work of social history written with passion and panache.' Daily Express 'Splendid. Using diaries, autobiographies, memoirs and interviews, Nicholson charts the work, the lives, the relationships and the emotions of typists, factory workers, housewives, debutantes and artists working as nurses, in the services, in intelligence, in factories, on the land and as codebreakers. A tremendous achievement.' Observer 'A deeply moving account of female courage both at home and overseas. The joy of Nicholson's book is the way she has plaited scores of individual stories into a richly textured account of the many forms that female courage can take.' Mail on Sunday