We Shall Never Surrender

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Through the diaries of nine men & women We Shall Never Surrender tells the story of the war as they experienced it whether at home struggling simply to keep going in high office with direct influence on its outcome or protesting against it. Some of them like Alan Brooke who became Chief of the General Staff the politician Harold Nicolson or the pacifist writer Vera Brittain are well known. Others -- Anne Garnett the wife of a country solicitor George Beardmore a young husband & father with ambitions to become a novelist or Clara Milburn a contended wife & mother of an adult son -- are not. But in their diaries they all -- together with the diplomat Charles Ritchie the novelist Naomi Mitchison & the resourceful & frequently unconventional Hermione Countess of Ranfurly --followed the war in their diaries from outbreak to victory. For some keeping a diary was a way of documenting their hopes & fears for an unforeseen future. For others it was a way of carefully preserving their lives on the page uncertain in what state they would find the world the next time they woke. Together they constitute a remarkable record of human endeavour & human cost at a time when the whole world was locked in conflict & it often seemed that the outcome rested on the shoulders of one small isl&.