WAR
THE
SPECTATOR
BOOK OF W( )R I,D WAR It REWORD .BY 1.1DOVIC KENNEDY FIFTY YEARS after the outbreak of the Second World War comes a collection of the best contemporary writing from the pages of The Spectator — a remarkable testament to seven momentous years and a poignant reminder of people's moods and attitudes in wartime.
Among the many articles, letters, diary entries, poems and reminiscences are Graham Greene's description of a practice air raid drill, Christmas in wartime Athens by Osbert Lancaster and Julian Huxley's adventure chasing escaped zebras in Regent's Park during the Blitz.
. . our own Spectator, which has already provided material for an admirable anthology of travel writing, has now given the skilful editors material for an even better miscellany of writing about the second world war, from the 1938 rallies at Nuremberg . to the day of victory in 1945, when William Deedes of the Queen's Westminsters experienced that strange sensation, a mixture of relief and depression, that exhausted soldiers feel at the end of the last battle.'
— Christopher Hibbert, Sunday Times
Published by Grafton Books, Articles of War is illustrated with period advertisements from The Spectator.
ARTICLES OF WAR is available by post to Spectator readers in the UK at £16.95 + £2.55 postage and packing. (Overseas rates available on request). Please send your cheque for £19.50 to: The Spectator, Articles of War Offer, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2,LL.
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