Love in the Blitz The Long-Lost Letters of a Brilliant Young Woman to Her Beloved on the Front

Eileen Alexander

eBook - 2020

Experience romance and wartime London in the collected letters between two English lovers separated while serving their country during World War II.On July 17, 1939, Eileen Alexander, a recent Cambridge graduate, writes a letter to fellow student Gershon Ellenbogen. It is the beginning of a stirring correspondence that lasts seven years, through the darkest days of World War II, and spans many hundreds of letters.Recently discovered and meticulously curated, these extraordinary records that "tell a rich, multilayered story—a wealthy and bright young woman's day-by-day experience in London during the war, the growth of her love for a young man, and her insider's view of a fascinating slice of upper-class Jewish life in mid-t...wentieth-century England," writes Thomas Rick in the New York Times Book Review. "One of her closest friends is Aubrey Eban, who would later become Abba Eban, the influential foreign minister of Israel. Simply 'everybody' she knows from... more