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Our Uninvited Guests The Secret Life Of Britains Country Houses 193945 Julie Summers

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Our Uninvited Guests The Secret Life Of Britains Country Houses 193945 Julie Summers
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Our Uninvited Guests The Secret Life Of Britains Country Houses 193945 Julie Summers instant download after payment.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK;Simon & Schuster Ltd
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 51.69 MB
Author: Julie Summers
ISBN: 9781471152559, 1471152553
Language: English
Year: 2019

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Our Uninvited Guests The Secret Life Of Britains Country Houses 193945 Julie Summers by Julie Summers 9781471152559, 1471152553 instant download after payment.

A remarkable narrative set against the dark days of World War Two, from one of the country’s foremost social historians.Our Uninvited Guests perfectly captures the spirit of upheaval at the beginning of the Second World War when thousands of houses were requisitioned by the government to provide accommodation for the armed forces, secret services and government offices as well as vulnerable children, the sick and the elderly, all of whom needed to be housed safely beyond the reach of Hitler’s Luftwaffe.
 
Julie Summers gives the reader a behind-the-scenes glimpse of life in some of Britain’s greatest country houses that were occupied by people who would otherwise never have set foot in such opulent surroundings.Blenheim Palace was colonised by schoolboys who slept in the Long Library; Polish special agents trained in the grounds of Audley End House, learning to forge and lie their way into occupied Europe in the old nursery. Brocket Hall, former home of Queen Victoria’s favourite Lord Melbourne, was used as a maternity home for women from the East End of London, and the Rothschilds’ magnificent French chateau-inspired Waddesdon Manor housed a hundred children under five. The Northern Highlands, where the fierce warriors of Scotland’s past developed their unconventional military skills, played host to the most extreme form of warfare, training agents in the fine arts of sabotage, subterfuge and assassination.
 
The juxtaposition of splendour and opulence with the everyday activities of people whose needs were at odds with their new surroundings is at the heart of this book. This thought-provoking and evocative narrative captures a crucial period in the social history of Britain.

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