With both her parents doing their duty for king and country, Miranda Beddoes longs to do the same, and so joins the WAAF. Despite her determination to dedicate herself to her work, Miranda falls for charismatic fighter pilot Gil Maddern. When she learns that Gil's plane has been ...
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It is April 1939 and, unaware that the German war machine is advancing towards the Channel Islands, 17-year-old Meg Colivet and her sister are enjoying a holiday in Oxford with their aunt. Here Meg meets charismatic German undergraduate Rayner Weiss and the couple fall passionate...
"August 1939: Thirteen-year-old Poppy Brown is evacuated to a village in Dorset. Tired and frightened, she arrives with nothing but her gas mask and a change of clothes to her name. Billeted at a grand country house, Poppy is received with cold indifference above stairs and gets ...
Ginnie Travis is working in her father's furniture shop, when the bombing raids and her sister Shirley's untimely pregnancy force the two girls to go and stay with their aunt in Shropshire. Here Ginnie falls in love with an American, Lieutenant Nick Miller. But she discovers that...