Juliet Nicolson

A passionate wartime love story is rescued from oblivion

A recently discovered cache of letters from the Blitz are funny, moving, despairing, erotic — and always inspirational

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issue 16 May 2020
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  • Love in the Blitz: The Greatest Lost Love Letters of the Second World War

    Eileen Alexander, edited by David McGowan and David Crane

    William Collins, pp. 467, £20

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It is the great good fortune of Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to be united by a common language, and a misfortune of even greater magnitude that they share that language with the United States. America is a very different country to the four Commonwealth realms sometimes brigaded together under the ugly acronym ‘Canzuk’.

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