Mollie Panter-Downes
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Book Recommendations: The British Home Front During WWII
I have mentioned a few times that I am very interested in the social history of WWII, especially in relation to the British home front. I can’t really pinpoint what started this interest, probably a book at some time or another, that is how most of my interests start. Whatever began it, I am just fascinated with the everyday life of people living through the war. I like finding out what they thought, how they felt, what they did to stretch the rations, how they clothed their families, what they did for entertainment, how life changed and how life stayed the same. Maybe it is just my nosy side coming…
- books, Connie Willis, Dorothy L. Sayers, e.m. delafield, Jane Austen, Jerome K. Jerome, Mollie Panter-Downes, WWII
In Case of Emergency
I was lying in bed the other night wondering what five books I would take with me if I was stranded on a deserted island. As you do. Of course, this led me to wonder how I ended up on the island. Was my ship captured by pirates and after I spurned the captain’s advances, I was put ashore where I stood gallantly waving farewell with my trunk by my side? (the trunk has to be there to contain the books.) Was my ship broken apart on the rocks after a day and night of a storm such as was never known in that latitude before? I made it ashore…





