People of Portsmouth: The 20th Century in Their Own Words Style:Paperback Catherine Beale is a writer

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People of Portsmouth: The 20th Century in Their Own Words Style:Paperback Catherine Beale is a writerTHIS remarkable, in depth oral history of the 20th century in Portsmouth offers a fascinating insight into the experience of life during the recent past. The many voices that have been recorded provide an intimate, authentic portrait of Portsmouth and its people. Chapters focus on the key stages in personal life stories, on childhood, courtship, sex and marriage, family life, old age and death. Reminiscences of World War Two are especially poignant,