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A Pacifist's War
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
When war is declared, Frances and Ralph, both pacifists, turn their house into a sanctuary for friends more materially involved. Invasion seems imminent as one by one the countries of Europe fall to the Nazis. People are even told to immobilise their car engines at night in case the Germans parachute into Britain. All Allied and German manoeuvres are here recorded as they happened and the feelings of those who can only wait anxiously for news.
Yet although war looms persistently over the Partridges, only a few power cuts affect them, leaving them feeling oddly isolated from it. As life goes on, Frances' diary not only chronicles events important to Britain; it also reveals an utterly different life in which conversation, observation and literature are the driving forces, along with her husband and small son.
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- Sakazoke
- 06-04-23
Brilliant!
I wish I could give this book 10 plus stars. It’s absolutely brilliant! The narrator is fantastic! She brings the people to life. I hope I listen to a lot more books by this author, and narrator. They made my day.
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- AmazonCustomer
- 02-08-24
Interesting to start with but then it got boring.
I found this book through the reader, who I like very much after listening to Agatha Christie's biography. But although this book was very interesting to start with, it then got very repetitive. it didn't explain much about pacifism, the ideals behind it, and it was just a diary about everyday life under the war as lived by a very privileged family. I liked the reader though, she's very good and suited to this type of book.
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