'Much of it is extremely interesting; some of it is fascinatingly out-of-the-way, and all of it contributes to building up a true picture of everyday life in England from September 19S9 to August 1945'.CYRIL CONNOLLY IN THE SUNDAY TIMES'... A land-mine of information covering every field of civilian life in wartime from the grandeurs of the blitz to the miseries of dried eggs and the six-inch bath'.