Their promised land

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Ian Buruma's moving and powerful story of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars.

Ian 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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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 maart 2017

Aantal pagina's: 305

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Ian Buruma

Hoofduitgeverij: Atlantic Books

Originele titel: Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

AI-gegenereerd: Nee

Editie: Main

Product breedte: 129 mm

Product hoogte: 23 mm

Product lengte: 198 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 117 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 28 mm

Verpakking lengte: 195 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 531 g

eWaste: Nee

EAN: 9781848879416

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