Love in the Blitz : the greatest lost love letters of the Second World War
Alexander, Eileen, 1917-19862020
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In summer 1939, war was brewing. Eileen Alexander was a bright young graduate just leaving Cambridge and newly smitten with Gershon Ellenbogen, a fellow student who had inadvertently involved her in a car crash. Her first letter to him, written from hospital, sparked a correspondence that would last the length of the war and define the love of their lifetimes. 'Love in the Blitz' is a remarkable portrait of one woman's coming-of-age. Her previously undiscovered letters are vivid, intimate, and crackling with intelligence. She is frank about sex and her ambitions, hilariously caustic about colleagues, rationing rules and life on the homefront, and painfully honest about loving a man away at war.
Main title:
Love in the Blitz : the greatest lost love letters of the Second World War / Eileen Alexander ; edited by David McGowan and David Crane ; foreword by Oswyn Murray.
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Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2020.
Collation:
xx, 474 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780008311209 (hbk)
Dewey class:
942.1084092942.108
Language:
English
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BRN:
413956