Tommy's War: A First World War Diary 1913-18
- ISBN-10
- 000728067X
- ISBN-13
- 9780007280674
- Series
- Tommy's War
- Category
- Glasgow (Scotland)
- Pages
- 420
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- HarperCollins UK
- Author
- Thomas Cairns Livingstone
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.
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- 2020-06-22
- 208 pages
- Paperback
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- 2014-09-09
- 384 pages
- Paperback
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