Tommys War by Thomas Cairns Livingstone

Tommys War by Thomas Cairns Livingstone

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.

‘Beautifully reproduced diaries’ Independent on Sunday (Book of the Year)

‘Amusing and beautifully illustrated…with an eye for detail…TOMMY'S WAR…provides the missing piece of the wartime jigsaw – a detailed description of the tender, comforting ordinariness of everyday life that so many brave men gave their lives to preserve.’ Daily Mail

‘Do try and purchase “Tommy’s War”, a book of the recently found diaries of a Glaswegian clerk…and his delightful drawings alongside…they are splendidly evocative.’ Sunday Times

Thomas Cairns Livingstone was a mercantile book keeper who began his diaries in 1913, when he, his wife Agnes and their son ‘wee Tommy’ set up house in the Glasgow neighbourhood of Govanhill. His diaries 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. Andrew Marr is a former editor of The Independent and BBC Political Editor. He currently hosts BBC 1’s Andrew Marr Show, and presented Radio 4’s Start the Week from 2005 to 2012. His acclaimed television documentary series include Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain and Andrew Marr’s The Making of Modern Britain. He is a hugely successful non-fiction author, and his first novel, Head of State will be published in 2014.

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ISBN 13	9780007285389
ISBN 10	0007285388
Title	Tommys War
Author	Thomas Cairns Livingstone
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2009-05-28
Number of pages	352
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