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

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 t...