Book description
>But the Season of 1939 was different: it was to be the last. And
like many a finale, it lives on in memory as a lovely, enchanted dream,
all the more beautiful for the horror and destruction that would follow
so soon.
Based on a wealth of first-hand reminiscences, press clippings, and
memorabilia, 1939: The Last Season of Peace
is a fascinating portrait of this fairy tale about to end. Itcaptures
the end of an era as it recreates a world whose inhabitants still
believed in empire and tradition. It is a vivid picture of a generation
suspended in a brief moment of sunlit summer glory, before the gathering
storm of World War II swept it all away.> >But the Season of 1939
was different: it was to be the last. And like many a finale, it lives
on in memory as a lovely, enchanted dream, all the more beautiful for
the horror and destruction that would follow so soon.
Based on a wealth of first-hand reminiscences, press clippings, and
memorabilia, 1939: The Last Season of Peace
is a fascinating portrait of this fairy tale about to end. Itcaptures
the end of an era as it recreates a world whose inhabitants still
believed in empire and tradition. It is a vivid picture of a generation
suspended in a brief moment of sunlit summer glory, before the gathering
storm of World War II swept it all away.>
