the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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'During the period of our captivity at Munden the time passed more heavily, I think, than at any later period, owing to the fact that we had practically no reading matter ... No daily papers or periodicals of any sort were allowed, not even German, only a rag called The Continental Times ... There were only about a dozen English novels in the camp, and no means of obtaining more; consequently, to keep one's mind occupied, one had to read them over and over again ...'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Gray Gilliland      Print: Book

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