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"Betty's day-by-day struggle through an ordinary small-town war time life makes unique reading. I lived through the era and can vouch for the truth of it all." David Croft OBE, Writer/Producer of Dad's Army, BBC Journalist Nicholas Webley made a remarkable find in a house in Norfolk - a diary kept during the Second World War, scribbled for the most part in school exercise books and on scraps of paper, and written, as it turned out, by Betty Armitage, a seamstress born in the 1880s. In her diary, the events of the war years are experienced in the country; privation relieved by the occasional poached pheasant, upheaval as thousands of young US servicemen "invade" East Anglia, quiet heroes and small-time rural villains. The era springs to life in the pages of Betty's diary - funny, touching, and unaffectedly vivid.
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About the Author:
Nicholas Webley is a journalist with a special interest in World War II who lives in Norfolk, England-very near Attleborough, where Betty Armitage lived and wrote her diary during the war. The diarist was a seamstress and theatrical costumer.
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- PublisherReminiscence Large Print
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0753198665
- ISBN 13 9780753198667
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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