It was August, 1943, and into a quiet English village roared a Fighter Group of the American Eighth Army Air Force. The villagers had never seen anything like them before. They were glamorous, exciting, and ready to win the war.Night after night these brave men face the enemy--and many nights, no...
It was Berlin in 1948. In the British sector was Squadron Leader Michael Harrison, a war hero who had helped to bomb Berlin into fragments. In the Russian sector was young Lili Leicht, a daughter of a university professor and now living in the ruins of her former home. As the tensions in the smou...
A Lancaster bomber required a crew of seven men. Van, the pilot is American, Jock, Flight Engineer a Scot. Piers, the hopeless navigator is a foppish aristocrat - 'Frightfully sorry, Skipper, not absolutely sure where we are'. The bomb aimer is an Aussie. Wireless operator a London cockney who wa...
1939 - And in the back of a three-ton lorry, a strangely assorted group of young women bumped over the road to RAF Colston. They were the first of the WAAFs.Barmaids mixed with secretaries and debutantes. They had appalling living quarters and no uniforms. And, worst of all, the Station Commander...
It is 1943, and three very different girls are longing to do their bit for the war effort. For Frances, her life of seeming privilege has been a lonely one. Brave and strong, stifled by her traditional upbringing, she falls for a most unsuitable man. Prudence - timid and conventional, her horizon...
A dramatic saga set during World War II - France, 1940. Unwilling to witness the fall of his native soil to Germany, artist Louis Duval flees to England, finding lodgings with the beautiful widow Barbara Hillyard. Lieutenant-Commander Alan Powell, charged with sneaking boats across the Channel to...
There was, apparently, an urgent need for young men to train as naval officers; the programme had even been drastically shortened to meet the demand. During a week’s leave at home, his father talked with him. ‘Germany must be fully prepared for war, if necessary, Reinhard. Personally, I don’t car...
Her older sisters, Violet and Lily, both secretaries, volunteered immediately for the WRNS. Iris, the next in age, escaped from a bank to join the Women’s Land Army, while Primrose, who had just finished her schooling, went off to drive ambulances for the FANYs. It took Daisy a year to persuade h...
After the heavy air raids by the Japanese air force, all white European women and children had been evacuated from Penang Island on military orders. She arrived at the railway station wearing her white solar topee, her black widow’s weeds and a furious expression. The train had been crowded with ...
‘He’s got an exeat this weekend and he’s coming home tomorrow for a night.’ ‘You don’t look very happy about it.’ She was fiddling with her coffee cup, twisting the handle to and fro. ‘I’m worried, Hugh. Someone told him about the skeleton – they’d read about it in the papers – and he seems to th...