02515nam a2200313 i 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020003800062040002500100082002000125090002400145100004400169245016900213264004000382300008900422336002100511337002500532338002300557520128600580600004001866650005701906650004501963651005702008700003002065700003402095700004202129942001102171999001902182OSt20210328144008.0210328s2020    enkac  e      000 0beng d  a9780008311216cRM79.90qpaperback  aPPAKbengcPPAKerda04223a942.108409200a942.1084092bALEdG1 aAlexander, Eileen, d1917-1986eauthor.10aLove in the Blitz :bThe Greatest Lost Love letters of the Second World War /cEileen Alexander ; Edited by David McGowan and David Crane ; Foreword by Oswyn Murray 1aLondon :bWilliam Collins, c2020.   axx, 474 pages, [16 unnumbered pages of plates] :billustrations, portraits ; c23 cm  2rdacontentatext  2rdamediaaunmediated  2rdacarrieravolume  aRescued 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 unfolds10aAlexander, Eileen vCorrespondence.10aWorld War, 1939-1945 vPersonal narratives, English.20aWorld War, 1939-1945 zEngland zLondon.10aLondon (England) xHistory yBombardment, 1940-1945.1 aMcGowan, David, eeditor.1 aCrane, David,d1942-eeditor.1 aMurray, Oswyn,  ewriter of foreword.  2ddccB  c183003d183003