The Lion and The Unicorn (1970) By Arthur Bryant
 
This book contains a challenge. For thirty-three years while writing the histories whose evocation of the past has made him world-famous, Sir Arthur Bryant has contributed a weekly commentary to the Illustrated Evening News. Out of his articles on the passing scene, he has made a work of art that not only re-creates the vanished world in which he grew up, but conjures up, with a sense of immediacy, the revolutionary years through which the nation has passed since the thirties. He recalls the experiences which taught him his historian's craft and made him love England; the life of a still unspoiled countryside; the ardors, endurances and dramatic changes of the grim war years; the hopes of the Servicemen with whom he worked, of a Brave New World, and the very different reality to which they returned. With deep poetic feeling, he describes the places he has lived in and loved; his rustic pursuits of farming and forestry; the animals - dog, mongoose, badger and cat - who have been his companions; the landscape, buildings, institutions and traditions which are the living witnesses to our past. 
 
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367 pages
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