Annie's War: A New Zealand Woman and Her Family in England 191619
S Montgomerienorris
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Description for Annie's War: A New Zealand Woman and Her Family in England 191619
Paperback. Editor(s): Norris, Susanna Montgomerie. Num Pages: 256 pages, photos & illus. BIC Classification: BGHA; BJ; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
There have been many published collections of soldiers’ diaries and letters from the First World War, but never a firsthand account of one New Zealand family’s life in England during these challenging and frightening years. When her sons, Oswald and Seton, decided they wanted to serve as pilots, which meant enlisting in Britain, Annie Montgomerie decreed that the whole family would go too. So from 1916 to 1919 they lived in London, facing Zeppelin attacks, giving hospitality to young New Zealand friends who left to fight and sometimes never came back, watching Oswald and Seton go off to war, and ... Read more
There have been many published collections of soldiers’ diaries and letters from the First World War, but never a firsthand account of one New Zealand family’s life in England during these challenging and frightening years. When her sons, Oswald and Seton, decided they wanted to serve as pilots, which meant enlisting in Britain, Annie Montgomerie decreed that the whole family would go too. So from 1916 to 1919 they lived in London, facing Zeppelin attacks, giving hospitality to young New Zealand friends who left to fight and sometimes never came back, watching Oswald and Seton go off to war, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Otago University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, New Zealand
ISBN
9781877578755
SKU
V9781877578755
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-2
About S Montgomerienorris
Susanna Montgomerie Norris was born in 1940 and brought up on the family farm, Taukoro, near Wanganui. After secondary education at Samuel Marsden Collegiate in Wellington, she qualified as a teacher and spent two years teaching in London, then travelling in Europe and North America. She later trained as a children's librarian. After they married, Susanna and her husband, Mike ... Read more
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