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I haven't read the book either but it sounds like a good idea to include
women who weren't heroic, gung ho and useful. Accounts of the war often
suggest that people were improbably cheerful, brave and competent. Most
people must have felt miserable and inadequate in the face of so much horror
and privation. It's important to read about real human beings with all their
faults. And what does it matter where the women lived for goodness sake! The
last sentence is rude if not racist. Being American doesn't mean you're
incapable of empathising with how it was for the Brirish surely!
Claire Shelton-Jones
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Subject: [MASSOBS] Review of new MO diaries book
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Dear fellow Jiscmailers,
Please see attached link to Daily Mail review by Peter Lewis of Jen
Purcell's new book:
DOMESTIC SOLDIERS: SIX WOMEN'S LIVES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR BY JENNIFER
PURCELL (Constable £12.99)
www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1303571
Without wishing to influence you (and I haven't read Jen's book myself) I
thought this was rather a poor review with a snide last sentence. But it
might attract readers all the same.
What does everyone think?
Dorothy (Sheridan)
Sussex
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