The story sheds well-deserved light on the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), a World War II civilian organisation based at White Waltham Airfield in England. These pilots – from several nations, including the U.S. – flew ferry missions and mail and ambulance flights, thus freeing Royal Air Force pil...
The journey had been accomplished without incident as Ted couldn’t seem to stay awake, and he hadn’t said a word the entire time. Her father had remarked that he probably hadn’t slept properly for a long time, and by the look of the exhausted man sitting across from her that was obvious. Ellie co...
They had just reached the bedroom door when they heard soft footfalls behind them and turned in alarm, thinking one of the villains might have entered the house. ‘Oh, Tom!’ Beth gasped. ‘You gave us a fright.’ ‘Sorry, Miss Langton.’ His face was aglow with excitement. ‘I got a message for his lor...
Bob rubbed his chin thoughtfully. ‘Dave we know, but who is this little fellow?’‘This is Dave’s brother, Alfie,’ Harry explained.‘I see … And what are you doing with two children now, Harry?’‘It’s a long story, Bob, but the short version is that I’m going to open that school I’ve been talking abo...
Spring of 1922 was turning out to be beautiful and exciting. Over the last two years her sales had steadily increased, and her dad had told her that she was ready to start up on her own. She had enjoyed working with Mrs Law, but he was right. Her reputation as a dressmaker was growing and more pe...
She just had to make it on her own. If she didn’t then the welfare would get hold of her and she’d end up in a home or something worse. They had already been round asking her lots of questions. She’d lied and told them she had a job and could look after herself. She could just picture what her li...
He wasn’t in the trenches again, but in a clean, comfortable bed. ‘He’s coming round,’ he heard someone say. ‘Tell the nurse, Win.’ Win? That was his sister. He moved his head from side to side in an effort to clear the muddle as panic swept through him. What had they done...
The police had obviously dealt with him, and she was relieved and grateful. She had settled into the job of looking after the twins, and had quickly fallen under their spell. Not that they were angels – far from it. They had bright, intelligent minds, and a curiosity about everything around them....
‘I’ve never seen him so depressed.’ She looked uncomfortable. ‘He insulted me.’ ‘Come on, I don’t believe that. He’s a gentleman through and through.’ ‘I don’t want to talk about it. He apologised, and that’s an end to it.’ David sighed deeply. ‘Whatever happened is between you and Alex, but you’...
His mother was furious about something and arguing fiercely with her husband. Gilbert was standing there with a stunned expression on his face, not able to believe that his usually calm and pleasant wife could explode like this.Matt went over to his brothers, who were standing by the window looki...
None of the boys had made it home either, but Greg and Hal had turned up, and by the sound of it they had had a lively time. Becky’s father seemed particularly fond of the two Americans, and was writing to both of them regularly now. The new year, 1943, had arrived on a bi...
The café they went to was a buzz of excited chatter, and later, at the Odeon in Leicester Square, there was a special newsreel. Once the film started she sat back and watched the epic Spartacus. The outside world faded as she became completely absorbed in the story, and she didn’t even protest wh...