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020			_a9780008311216 _cRM79.90 _qpaperback
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100	1		_aAlexander, Eileen, _d1917-1986 _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aLove 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
264		1	_aLondon : _bWilliam Collins, _c2020.
300			_axx, 474 pages, [16 unnumbered pages of plates] : _billustrations, portraits ; _c23 cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
520			_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 unfolds
600	1	0	_aAlexander, Eileen _vCorrespondence.
650	1	0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _vPersonal narratives, English.
650	2	0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zEngland _zLondon.
651	1	0	_aLondon (England) _xHistory _yBombardment, 1940-1945.
700	1		_aMcGowan, David, _eeditor.
700	1		_aCrane, David, _d1942- _eeditor.
700	1		_aMurray, Oswyn, _ewriter of foreword.
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