Growing Up in Wartime Somerset: A Portrait in Watercolour

This nostalgic, humorous, and richly illustrated volume celebrates the Somerset of years gone by. Syd Durston was seven when the Second World War broke out. As well as causing panic in Britain’s cities, the war transformed life in the countryside in all sorts of ways. This is how one boy remembers life in rural Somerset during that time, where from "the age of ten you were at school between 9 a.m. and noon, and then you could work on the land until 8 p.m." It is an elegy to the levels and t...