Tommy's War. A First World War Diary

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: HarperPress
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 382 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s. Thomas Cairns Livingstone, a mercantile book keeper, began his diaries in 1913, when he, his wife Agnes and their son awee Tommya set up house in the Glasgow neighbourhood of Govanhill. For the next twenty years, Livingstone dutifully recorded each dayas events in his Collins diaries, from small domestic dramas to troop movements as news of the Great War filtered back to the anxious home front. Rescued during a house clearance, the intricate details of these journals a interspersed throughout with Livingstoneas wonderfully warm and idiosyncratic illustrations a provide a priceless record of the impression world events were making on the ordinary people at home and an extraordinary chronicle of the ups and downs of working-class life in the period immediately before, during and after the First World War. The details of the familyas early life, notes about the (usually dreich) Glasgow weather, and comments on the carnage on the front and on the high seas, are written and illustrated with such warmth and charm that the story of this very ordinary household in the early part of the 20th century becomes completely addictive.

ISBN: 9780007280674