TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alexander,Eileen
AU  - McGowan,David
AU  - Crane,David
AU  - Murray,Oswyn
TI  - Love in the Blitz: The Greatest Lost Love letters of the Second World War 
SN  - 9780008311216
U1  - 942.1084092 23
PY  - 2020///.
CY  - London
PB  - William Collins, 
KW  - Alexander, Eileen 
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Personal narratives, English
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - London (England)
KW  - History
KW  - Bombardment, 1940-1945
N2  - Rescued from oblivion by an impulse eBay purchase, the letters of Eileen Alexander are one of the great literary discoveries of the 21st century: an extraordinary woman sending missives that show what it meant to be in love during the Second World War. In summer 1939, Eileen was an exceptionally bright young graduate leaving Cambridge with a First. She was tentatively in love, and war was brewing. She would spend the next years of her life in London, writing the most intimate, brilliant love letters of the Second World War. Eileen's letters to Gershon Ellenbogen tell an incredible story. Her writing gives dazzling displays of intelligence and devotion, by turn generous, erudite, angry, scurrilous, and very, very funny. Eileen can find a biting or ironic quotation for every eventuality. She can skewer a pompous colleague in two lines of airmail. She writes frankly about sex, about ambition as an intelligent woman jostling against the limitations of her era, about the terrible things that came to her fiercest friends, and about the painful uncertainty of loving a man away at war. Told by an unknown master letter writer of the twentieth century, this is a unique story of war as it was lived by women - and an unforgettable account of ardent, real love as it unfolds
ER  -