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Tommy's War: A First World War Diary 1913-1918 | 
 enlarge | Author: Thomas Cairns Livingstone
Creator: Andrew Marr
Publisher: HarperPress
Category: Book
List Price: £20.00
Buy New: £8.69
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 5860
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.3 x 1.6
ISBN: 000728067X
EAN: 9780007280674
ASIN: 000728067X
Publication Date: September 15, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: IN STOCK - BRAND NEW - IMMEDIATE DISPATCH
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A Delight September 20, 2008
Mrs. J. A. Palfree (UK)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book is a delight, a gem. The original illustrations take the diaries beyond the mundane, and Thomas Livingstone's gentle humour enlivens the often dreary weather and seemingly constant worries over Agnes health. Zeplins, Chimneys, the wash house, news from the front, the ironing, the cost of coal..... all of life is here. You will love it!
What a find!!! An absolute treasure trove. October 17, 2008
Peter A. Colwill (England)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I don't usually read diaries but this caught my eye and I decided to give it a go as I generally read war books. From page one it became a treasure trove of snippets from a bygone era. How a family strove to make ends meet through severe hardship during ww1. Thomas makes light of it all with wit, charm and such delightful drawings of news items or his family.
Shaun sewell has made a great discovery and shared it with the nation. We must thank you for that and just hope Harper collins will see fit to produce book 2 from 1919 t0 1933. I only hope someone will find the pre war diaries that might have started as early as 1905 whilst thomas was courting Agnes.
This is a real gem, set in Glasgow it gives us all another angle on the great war, A great social history, and whether you are from the North, the south, England, scotland, Ireland or Wales it will appeal to all.
Glasgow's WWI Kiss September 19, 2008
M. L. Richings (Birmingham, England)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
Well, what a find, I am normally an avid veiwer of the Antiques Roadshow but must have missed the autumn 2007 episode at alnwick castle which featured the original MSS of these diaries, these are, I think unique, part facsimilie MSS part typeset, the diaries are illustrated throughout by Thomas Cairns Livingstone, a well to do Glasweigian shipping clerk, the diaries span the best part of 30 years, but here we have the best bits, the Great War years, plus a few entries for 1933, depression era (how spookily apt for today) I am a collector of WWI Diaries, I like seeing the great war from all angles, but I have never come across one like these, and i don't think there will be another set like these published, I can rave on about how superb they are, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating, I am sure you will agree, it will be the best money you've ever spent, open the pages of Thomas Cairns livingstone's diaries and let him talk to you himself and be transported back to Post Edwardian Glasgow
a wee man's great war December 26, 2008
Alexander Bryce (Scotland)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Having a fair knowledge of this 1914/1918 hellish war from the writings of the politicians and historians,it was so interesting and enlighting to follow the lives of ordinary working folk who happened to be living and working in Glasgow at this time through the diaries of Thomas Livingstone. This book has everything: humour, compassion and suspense[will he or won't he be called to the trenches]. Here is a man of very limited formal education who writes beautifully quoting from the classics ,using French and Latin phrases and illustrating his pages with skillful sometimes sad but usually very funny cartoons. This day to day account of his family life against the back ground of the first world war is a masterpeice. I defy anyone to read it without laughing out loud and shedding a few tears.
A Real Treasure! December 29, 2008
B. O'Brien (Ireland)
Tommy's War is a wonderful book!
Written as a private diary almost 100 years ago and miraculously rescued at an auction it provides a first hand account of life in Glasgow during the Great War. Written and wonderfully illustrated by Thomas Livingstone it gives an honest almost mundane account of daily life. Contrast this with the war office propaganda and censorhip of the time. Tommy is most often preoccupied with the cost of his family's rent, visits to the doctor and family outings - all recorded alongside the latest statistics from the Western Front and further afield.He conveys all human emotion - fear of being drafted, sadness at the death of friends and family, pride in his wife and son and much more.
Written in a humorous and unpretentious style this is a book that I genuinely found difficult to put down. The publishers have struck gold with this book and have certainly done Tommy's original diary justice. Most of the diary entries are published in "type" but many of Tommy's little illustrations (colour) are faithfully reproduced as are many copies of original pages from the diary.
My great hope is that the publishers will print a sequel using the remainder of Tommy's diaries which he recorded faithfully until 1933.
I can thoroughly recommend this wonderful book!
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