How long does it take to read How We Lived Then?
a history of everyday life during the Second World War.
Norman Longmate
How We Lived Then by Norman Longmate takes about 10 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 38 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1971. 580 pages, about 159,500 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Minutely detailed, accurate, skilfully marshalled and engagingly written, it is quite the best social chronicle of the period I have read.' SpectatorAn immense and impressive assembly-Must surely remain an invaluable essay in the remembrance of things past. - TimesSuperbly detailed and illustrated. From stirrup pumps to Spam, Norman Longmate's marvellously comprehensive panorama misses nothing. Excellent. - Sunday TelegraphA landmine of information covering every field of civilian life in wartime from the grandeurs of the blitz to the miseries of dried eggs and the six-inch bath.Much of it is extremely interesting; some of it is fascinatingly out-of-the-way; and all of it contributes to building up a true picture of everyday life in England from September 1939 to August 1945. - ObserverFor those who lived through those wartime years, How We Lived Then will be not merely a refreshment of memory-but also an enlargement of experience; how other people we did not meet lived then. - Times Literary Supplement
Subjects: Social life and customs, History, Nonfiction, Great britain, social life and customs, Aspect social, Mœurs et coutumes
