![]() Day by day we glimpse of the reality of individuals living out their lives in wartime. We also read the private thoughts of those who were close to Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler. Rare material from hitherto unknown diaries is combined with the journals of famous figures such as Joseph Goebbels, Joyce Grenfell, Anthony Eden, Jean-Paul Sartre, Evelyn Waugh and Noel Coward. Some were downright illegal, such as those kept by soldiers on the front line. In occupied Europe a captured diary could betray friends and relatives to the enemy. Keeping a diary in wartime involved a degree of danger and secrecy. The reader is guided through the war, month by month, experiencing each event at first hand. Remarkable diary extracts - many never published before - are interspersed with a clear narrative of the main events of this vast conflict. Using the personal diaries of schoolboys, women factory-workers, soldiers, spies as well as statesmen, the story of the Second World War is retold in a strikingly original format. Witness to War offers a compelling alternative history of a world in turmoil. ![]()
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