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Afficher les exemplaires de cette édition ISBNIan Buruma's maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still at school at Uppingham and Win was taking music lessons in Hampstead. They were married for more than sixty years, but the heart of their remarkable story lies within the span of the two world wars.
After a brief separation, when Bernard served as a stretcher bearer on the Western Front during the Great War, the couple exchanged letters whenever they were apart. Most of them were written during the Second World War and their correspondence is filled with vivid accounts of wartime activity at home and abroad. Bernard was stationed in India as an army doctor, while Win struggled through wartime privation and the Blitz to hold her family together, including their eldest son, the later film director John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday), and twelve Jewish children they had arranged to be rescued from Nazi Germany.
Their letters are a priceless record of an assimilated Jewish family living in England throughout the upheavals of the twentieth century and a moving portrait of a loving couple separated by war. By using their own words, Ian Buruma has created a spellbinding homage to the sustaining power of a family's love and devotion through very dark days.
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. Ian Buruma's grandparents, Bernard Schlesinger and Winifred Regensburg (Winnie & Bun), wrote to each other regularly over their sixty years together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bernard was still at school at Uppingham and Win was taking music lessons in Hampstead. The last ones were written in the 1970s. Most of them are love letters, written from the trenches in France in World War One, from Oxford and Cambridge in the 1920s, from Germany in the 1930s, from Norway and India in World War Two. Often, especially when Bernard was away for three years in India as a doctor in the British Army, they wrote every day, knowing it would take weeks, and sometimes months to reach the other side.Their letters are a priceless record of an assimilated Jewish family living in England throughout the upheavals of the twentieth century and a moving portrait of a loving couple separated by war. By using their own words, Ian Buruma tells their story and embarks on a personal journey that reveals his own family history. Ian Buruma's moving and personal account of his grandparents' lives in England during both world wars, as told through their letters. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781848879386
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Description du livre Etat : New. Ian Buruma's moving and powerful story of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars. Num Pages: 320 pages, 42 integrated b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; 3JJG; 3JJH; BGH; BJ; HBW; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 219 x 31. Weight in Grams: 536. . 2012. Main. Hardcover. . . . . N° de réf. du vendeur V9781848879386
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. Ian Buruma's grandparents, Bernard Schlesinger and Winifred Regensburg (Winnie & Bun), wrote to each other regularly over their sixty years together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bernard was still at school at Uppingham and Win was taking music lessons in Hampstead. The last ones were written in the 1970s. Most of them are love letters, written from the trenches in France in World War One, from Oxford and Cambridge in the 1920s, from Germany in the 1930s, from Norway and India in World War Two. Often, especially when Bernard was away for three years in India as a doctor in the British Army, they wrote every day, knowing it would take weeks, and sometimes months to reach the other side.Their letters are a priceless record of an assimilated Jewish family living in England throughout the upheavals of the twentieth century and a moving portrait of a loving couple separated by war. By using their own words, Ian Buruma tells their story and embarks on a personal journey that reveals his own family history. Ian Buruma's moving and personal account of his grandparents' lives in England during both world wars, as told through their letters. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781848879386
Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. Ian Buruma's grandparents, Bernard Schlesinger and Winifred Regensburg (Winnie & Bun), wrote to each other regularly over their sixty years together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bernard was still at school at Uppingham and Win was taking music lessons in Hampstead. The last ones were written in the 1970s. Most of them are love letters, written from the trenches in France in World War One, from Oxford and Cambridge in the 1920s, from Germany in the 1930s, from Norway and India in World War Two. Often, especially when Bernard was away for three years in India as a doctor in the British Army, they wrote every day, knowing it would take weeks, and sometimes months to reach the other side.Their letters are a priceless record of an assimilated Jewish family living in England throughout the upheavals of the twentieth century and a moving portrait of a loving couple separated by war. By using their own words, Ian Buruma tells their story and embarks on a personal journey that reveals his own family history. Ian Buruma's moving and personal account of his grandparents' lives in England during both world wars, as told through their letters. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781848879386