Title: Wartime Sherborne: Vignettes of Sherborne at War 1939–1945 and Post-War Rural Life to 1952 as Seen by a Country Boy at Silverlake Farm Beside Lenthay Common
Author: Harold Osment
Format: Paperback
Publisher: H. Osment (published by the author)
ISBN: 9780902129658 (ISBN-10: 0902129651)
Language: English
Pages: —
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 1984
Genre: Local History, Memoir, Second World War
Condition: Good
Description:
Wartime Sherborne is a local memoir by Harold Osment, written as a series of short vignettes. It looks at Sherborne, Dorset, during the Second World War and at rural life in the years after, up to 1952, through the eyes of a boy growing up at Silverlake Farm beside Lenthay Common. It is a first-hand account of home-front life in a small Dorset town and its surrounding farmland. It will interest local historians, families with Sherborne connections and readers of country memoirs and wartime social history. This copy is the author’s own 1984 paperback publication, in good condition.
Title: Wartime Sherborne: Vignettes of Sherborne at War 1939–1945 and Post-War Rural Life to 1952 as Seen by a Country Boy at Silverlake Farm Beside Lenthay Common
Author: Harold Osment
Format: Paperback
Publisher: H. Osment (published by the author)
ISBN: 9780902129658 (ISBN-10: 0902129651)
Language: English
Pages: —
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 1984
Genre: Local History, Memoir, Second World War
Condition: Good
Description:
Wartime Sherborne is a local memoir by Harold Osment, written as a series of short vignettes. It looks at Sherborne, Dorset, during the Second World War and at rural life in the years after, up to 1952, through the eyes of a boy growing up at Silverlake Farm beside Lenthay Common. It is a first-hand account of home-front life in a small Dorset town and its surrounding farmland. It will interest local historians, families with Sherborne connections and readers of country memoirs and wartime social history. This copy is the author’s own 1984 paperback publication, in good condition.
