My Dear Bessie
A Love Story in Letters
The wartime correspondence which first warmed people's hearts in Simon Garfield's To The Letter, now available in a single volume for readers to follow their wonderful and life-changing journey. Includes an afterword by Chris and Bessie's son Bernard Barker.
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Moore, Bessie / Garfield, Simon (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78211-567-0
- EAN: 9781782115670
- Produktnummer: 17138434
- Verlag: Canongate Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H20.0 cm x B12.9 cm x D2.4 cm 262 g
- Auflage: Main
- Abbildungen: with b&w integrated illustrations
- Gewicht: 262
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Chris Barker joined the Post Office at fourteen, working as a messenger boy and then as a counter clerk, becoming an active trade union member. He served as a signalman in North Africa during the Second World War. Bessie Moore was a colleague of Chris Barker's at the Post Office, before working at the Foreign Office, using her training in Morse code to translate intercepted German radio messages. She was thirty when twenty-nine-year-old Chris first wrote from North Africa.Simon Garfield is the author of fourteen acclaimed books of non-fiction including To the Letter, On the Map, and Just My Type. His edited diaries from the Mass Observation Archive, Our Hidden Lives, We Are At War and Private Battles, were bestsellers.
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