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The Oaken Heart. By Margery Allingham, Hutchinson. 256 pp.
This book was first published in 1941, and is the author’s personal testament of the three fateful years preceding it, and the part played by the Essex village of Auburn in preparing to meet the impact of total war. Margery Allingham was commissioned to write the book by an American couple, probably because of this she has relaxed the customary standards of British reticence over matters on which they feel deeply. But the book achieves its purpose in presenting to the American public something of the honest perplexities felt by the English at the hopeless unpreparedness of their country’s defences and the individual’s determination to assist the war effort in any way within his power.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29192, 30 April 1960, Page 3
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