{"product_id":"tommys-war-a-first-world-war-diary-19131918","title":"Tommys War: A First World War Diary 19131918","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household  over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s. Thomas Cairns Livingstone  a mercantile book keeper  began his diaries in 1913  when he  his wife Agnes and their son wee Tommy set up house in the Glasgow neighbourhood of Govanhill. For the next twenty years  Livingstone dutifully recorded each days events in his Collins diaries  from small domestic dramas to troop movements as news of the Great War filtered back to the anxious home front. Rescued during a house clearance  the intricate details of these journals  interspersed throughout with Livingstones wonderfully warm and idiosyncratic illustrations  provide a priceless record of the impression world events were making on the ordinary people at home and an extraordinary chronicle of the ups and downs of working-class life in the period immediately before  during and after the First World War. The details of the familys early life  notes about the (usually dreich) Glasgow weather  and comments on the carnage on the front and on the high seas  are written and illustrated with such warmth and charm that the story of this very ordinary household in the early part of the 20th century becomes completely addictive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44948863287349,"sku":"ByrdShop_0007285388","price":62.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780007285389_2d7721b2-d788-4584-be4c-bb6ac147c6fe.jpg?v=1770653362","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/tommys-war-a-first-world-war-diary-19131918","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}