num_pages: 400
description: The third and final part of the hugely popular and critically acclaimed trilogy of diaries drawn from the Mass Observation Archive. Beginning at the height of the Blitz in 1940 and ending with wary victory four-and-a-half years later, this is the intimate story of five ordinary lives caught up in the most dramatic of events.
language: English
title: Private Battles: How the War Almost Defeated Us: Our Intimate Diaries
titlecomplete: Private Battles: How the War Almost Defeated Us: Our Intimate Diaries
genres: Biography, Research, Diary, History, British Literature, World War II, Historical, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 99
publisher: Ebury Press