- Publisher: William Collins
- Year: 2020
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 494pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 241x160mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.8kg
- ISBN: 9780008311209
- Product code: 519583
Love in the Blitz
The Greatest Lost Love Letters of the Second World War
Eileen Alexander , Ed. David Crane et al , Ed. David McGowan New Hardback Illustrated
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As she lay in hospital recuperating from a car crash, Cambridge graduate Eileen Alexander wrote the first of her 1,400 letters to Gershon Ellenbogen – the driver of the car she had been travelling in, and her future husband. An intelligent and frank expression of the writer’s opinions, and how she was affected by the war, the correspondence also offers ‘a description of love as it unfolds’.
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'Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational ... Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense ... This is the news from the domestic frontline: personal, unique, unexpurgated, without propaganda, as it unfolded and was experienced ... Splendid'
William Boyd, Guardian
With the intimacy and wit of a Second World War Bridget Jones, Eileen Alexander offers a portal into life during the Blitz.
Eileen Alexander fell in love amidst the falling of bombs, finding a quotation from poetry at every turn. Graduating from Cambridge in 1939, she had just been injured in a car crash (the man she had a soft spot for was driving) and had firm ambitions of studying further, making herself useful and absolutely not getting married.
Her letters offer a love story and a unique snapshot of the home front, as well as resurrecting the voice of a profoundly funny writer.
'I wonder what anyone would think if they suddenly came across my letters to you & started reading them in chronological order?' Eileen wrote in 1941. 'I think they'd say "This girl never lived till she loved" - and it would be true, darling.'
William Boyd, Guardian
With the intimacy and wit of a Second World War Bridget Jones, Eileen Alexander offers a portal into life during the Blitz.
Eileen Alexander fell in love amidst the falling of bombs, finding a quotation from poetry at every turn. Graduating from Cambridge in 1939, she had just been injured in a car crash (the man she had a soft spot for was driving) and had firm ambitions of studying further, making herself useful and absolutely not getting married.
Her letters offer a love story and a unique snapshot of the home front, as well as resurrecting the voice of a profoundly funny writer.
'I wonder what anyone would think if they suddenly came across my letters to you & started reading them in chronological order?' Eileen wrote in 1941. 'I think they'd say "This girl never lived till she loved" - and it would be true, darling.'
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As she lay in hospital recuperating from a car crash, Cambridge graduate Eileen Alexander wrote the first of her 1,400 letters to Gershon Ellenbogen – the driver of the car she had been travelling in, and her future husband. An intelligent and frank expression of the writer’s opinions, and how she was affected by the war, the correspondence also offers ‘a description of love as it unfolds’.
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Ed. David Crane et al, Ed. David McGowan, Eileen Alexander
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William Collins
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