Bøger af Lucy Adlington

Riffling through the wardrobes of years gone by, costume historian Lucy Adlington reveals the rich stories underlying the clothes we wear in this stylish tour of the most important developments in the history of fashion, from ancient times to the present day.

"Las costureras de Auschwitz cuenta la historia de las veinticinco mujeres y adolescentes, la mayorâia judâias, que en medio del horror absoluto del campo de exterminio de Auschwitz-Birkenau fueron seleccionadas para confeccionar ropa a medida para las damas de la alta sociedad nazi. Sus habilidades se convirtieron en su âunica esperanza de salvarse de una muerte segura en las câamaras de gas. Basâandose en un impresionante trabajo de investigaciâon, incluso en entrevistas con la âultima costurera superviviente, la novelista e historiadora Lucy Adlington ofrece una detallada e inestimable reconstrucciâon del vâinculo de amistad que unâia a aquellas valientes mujeres y su papel en la resistencia del campo, al tiempo que expone la codicia, la crueldad y la hipocresâia del Tercer Reich. Este libro ofrece una nueva mirada a un capâitulo poco conocido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y del Holocausto y saca a la luz historias de vidas excepcionales que deben ser contadas antes de que sea demasiado tarde."--Provided by publisher.

A sus catorce años y en su primer día de trabajo, Ella se adentra en un mundo de sedas, tijeras, alfileres y bordados. Pero ése no es un taller de costura normal. Ni las suyas son clientas corrientes. Ella ha conseguido un puesto de trabajo en el taller de costura de Birchwood. Prisionera en ese campo de concentración, cada vestido que diseña puede suponer la diferencia entre la vida y la muerte. Los recuerdos del pasado, la pasión por su trabajo y el mundo de la moda y los tejidos serán el refugio para superar esa realidad terrible. Dentro de Auschwitz se encuentra un taller de costura como ningún otro. Una conmovedora historia de amistad y heroísmo, basada en hechos reales.

'Lucy Adlington tells of the horrors of the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps from a fascinating and original angle.

Imagine 'stepping into someone else's shoes'. Walking back in time a century ago, which shoes would they be? A pair of silk sensations costing thousands of pounds designed by Yantonnay of Paris or wooden clogs with metal cleats that spark on the cobbles of a factory yard? Will your shoes be heavy with mud from trudging along duckboards between the tents of a frontline hospital... or stuck with tufts of turf from a football pitch? Will you be cloaked in green and purple, brandishing a 'Votes for Women' banner or will you be the height of respectability, restricted by your thigh-length corset? Great War Fashion opens the woman's wardrobe in the years before the outbreak of war to explore the real woman behind the stiff, mono-bosomed ideal of the Edwardian Society lady draped in gossamer gowns, and closes it on a new breed of women who have donned trousers and overalls to feed the nation's guns in munitions factories and who, clad in mourning, have loved and lost a whole generation of men. The journey through Great War Fashion is not just about the changing clothes and fashions of the war years, but much more than that - it is a journey into the lives of the women who lived under the shadow of war and were irrevocably changed by it. At times, laugh-out-loud funny and at others, bringing you to tears, Lucy Adlington paints a unique portrait of an inspiring generation of women, brought to life in rare and stunning images.

A unique blend of material culture and memoirs including interviews with wartime women, including Bletchley veterans and Holocaust survivors.

But this was Birchwood. For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. As fourteen-year-old Ella begins her first day at work she steps into a world of silks, seams, scissors, pins, hems and trimmings.