Love in the blitz : the long-lost letters of a brilliant young woman to her beloved on the front /
On July 17th 1939, Eileen Alexander, a bright young woman recently graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, begins a brilliant correspondence with fellow Cambridge student Gershon Ellenbogen that lasts five years and spans many hundreds of letters. But as Eileen and Gershon's relationship flou...
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New York :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2020]
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Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Oswyn Murray
- Historical introduction / by David Crane
- Drumnadrochit, summer 1939. September 1939-April 1940
- 'No time to sit on brood'. May-September 1940
- My young fellow. September-December 1940
- Blitz. January-March 1941
- Intentions. March-September 1941
- A rill civil servant. September-December 1941
- Your intended. January-May 1942
- Separation. May-December 1942
- Limbo. January 1943-March 1944
- The long wait. April 1944- March 1946
- Twin compasses
- Postscript.