Прекрасне видання і не менш прекрасна Астрід.
Рекомендую до прочитання - такі слід записки людини, що спостерігала за всим цим. Додатково до книги ще включені вирізки з газет - тож настрої того часу передаються чудово
Ех, як же нам не пощастило з сусідами

It is forgivable, I think, to be slightly fatigued by WWII. Especially in the UK, it represents a time and an atmosphere so deeply romanticised as to be almost fictional. The “Blitz Spirit” is invoked by people who want to take the country back to a status quo that never existed as uniformly as they’d like to think; grainy black-and-white photos of wartorn and occupied nations don’t manage to convey very much in the way of individual characters being formed under horrific circumstances. What I liked about the wartime diaries of Astrid Lindgren, author of the Swedish children’s classic about anarchic redhead Pippi Longstocking, is that this collection gives us a perspective on the war that Anglo-American education often ignores: that of the Nordic countries, sandwiched between aggressive Germany and bloodthirsty Russia, and in particular that of Sweden, which maintained official neutrality throughout the conflict.

Read the rest of the review here: https://ellethinks.wordpress.com/2016/10/28/a-world-gone-mad-the-wartime-diaries-of-astrid-lindgren/

Before she wrote Pippi Longstocking, Lindgren was a Swedish civilian, journalist, mother and observer of the events unfolding in neighboring Finland and Poland. Her diaries, reproduced here, are striking observations about living in a neutral country during WWII, fear of the war spilling over into Sweden, rationing, raising children while the world seemed to unravel and her (for the 1930s) scandalous marriage.

Це була б хороша книжка для книжкового клубу. Різні емоції: і розумієш її, коли хвороба дитини важливіше за будь-яку війну, і знаєш як це -- робити роботу і паралельно бути зануреною в війну, і дратуєшся, що Ліндгрен дуже стримано реагує на шведську "нейтральну" підтримку німців

This was really interesting once I got into it. I didn't know enough about Lindgren's personal life to make this fully absorbing. The war entries are fascinating, particularly from the point of view of someone so affected by what was happening in Europe, particularly over the border in Denmark and Finland, and yet from a neutral country. It took a while for me to settle in to it, but once I did it was excellent. I just wish there had been more context for the reader in terms of her background.