This is an account of real-life romance among the service men and women who made the most of the sexual freedom afforded by World War II. From letters and personal interviews, the author tells anecdotes of courtship and marriage in war-torn Britain, romantic days and nights in Africa, north-west Europe, the Far East and America. The book tells the stories of: the escaped POW who loved an Italian contessa and deserted; the Shropshire schoolgirls who took home two Czech soldiers planning to assassinate Gestapo chief Heydrich; the ATS wife who, posted overseas, left her husband holding the baby. Many well-known names appear, from HRH Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor to Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Corporal James (Jimmy) Young. The author has also written "Operation Millenium", "Women Who Went to War" and "Heroines of World War II".
- ISBN10 0709041969
- ISBN13 9780709041962
- Publish Date 31 October 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 May 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Crowood Press Ltd
- Imprint Robert Hale Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English