Mrs Miles's Diary: The Wartime Journal of a Housewife on the Home Front by Constance Miles, S.V. Partington

3.7 AVERAGE

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superwritermom's review

If you're looking for a firsthand account of what Great Britain was like during the early years of World War II, then this book is for you. Sometimes I got a little bogged down in Connie's friends and family, but her account really brought home the apprehension and deprivation as well as the resilience of the British.

charlie_pearson's review

4.0
informative medium-paced

fateleanor's review

4.25
informative sad medium-paced
A very interesting diary written during World War II. It was full of every day life and you could really feel the  unpleasantness of WW2 unfold.  So sad that she stopped writing it in 1943.
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cooeeaus's review

3.0
Mrs Miles wrote informatively about her life and communities life during the war years of 1939 to 1943. Their difficulties in finding food, all the bombs, the fright of planes flying so close to their home, the sadness of the realisation of the number of deaths. She writes of fears for loved ones overseas and the media coverage that often increased the fears in hearts and minds.
Reading these books about what went on at home during the war years has always interested me, I enjoyed reading this one.

lorees_reading_nook's review

4.0
A good book to read if you're interested in how the British middle class lived through WW2. It can get a bit confusing at times as the author casually makes reference to this or that person that she is familiar with but which the reader knows nothing about, so the editor's footnotes really help.

ev_'s review

4.0
What I was expecting and more. Very interesting insight and made much easier to read by the locality of the book!