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title: "The Oaken Heart: The Story of an English Village at War"
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# The Oaken Heart: The Story of an English Village at War

**Brand:** margery allinghamdr. ronald blythejulia joneslesley simpson
**Price:** € 44.06
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## Customer Reviews

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    A splendid new edition of a vital book
  

*by M***D on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 11 January 2013*

Margery Allingham has always been my favourite of the "Golden Age" crime writers, not least because the subtlety of her writing allowed her to change her books to reflect the changing times after WW2. "The Oaken Heart" is of course non-fiction, and well known as one of the best descriptions of ordinary English people in the first year or two of the war. It really is impossible to recommend it too highly, for its subject matter and for its writing. (Typically of her glancing humour, Allingham describes a woman as like a Shakespearean actress playing the Queen of Denmark "before all the trouble started.") And now there is this excellent new edition, with notes and some of Marge's letters and diary entries for the relevant period, all beautifully put together by Julia Jones, who wrote the Allingham biography "The Adventures of Margery Allingham". (Which I also highly recommend.) "The Oaken Heart" has been out of print or hard to obtain for a long time, so this new edition is very welcome indeed. It is so fascinating for any fan of Allingham's Campion novels to read the diary entries referring to her finishing "Traitor's Purse" through the Phoney War and then preparations for a possible German invasion.

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    A superb period book.
  

*by T***L on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 14 January 2021*

Although I was born 7 years after the end of WW2, I’ve always been fascinated by the threat of Nazi invasion circa 1940. The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers 1903 and the film circa 1977 and The Invasion of 1910, written 1906all deal with German invasion of dear old Blighty. So I really recommend this period book as the lady writer describes  just how they felt about the threat.

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    An insightful book
  

*by A***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 5 April 2016*

I found this book fascinating as I am studying the effects of the early part of WW2 on my own home town through the local newspaper, and this underlined many of the issues raised. I enjoyed Margery Allingham's contemplative style and felt the book gave insights into how civilians felt at this time as they 'did their bit' on the Home Front.

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