Royal Air Force

H. D. held seances during which believed that she had been given messages by dead RAF airmen warning of an imminent Third World War.

MJ co-wrote a comedy called Sweet Liberty with her brother Bernard Jaeger , who was in the RAF at the time.

AK 's son , a member of the RAF since the beginning of the war, was reported missing in action.

Margaret Wemyss , a recent graduate, married Jack Laurence , a fellow-student whose subject was engineering. He was also a war veteran, having been a mechanic with the RAF .

This book deals (often satirically) with Martha's experience as a member of a rather amateurish Communist Party group in Africa during the Second World War. The wave of local political consciousness is brief, brought about...

AL 's father, Winston Levy , was one of those pioneers from the Caribbean (Jamaica) who came to Britain on the Empire Windrush in 1948. He kept a souvenir postcard he bought on the ship...

The central events of the novel take place in postwar London over a few weeks during 1948, but those events are shaped by the separate experiences of the central characters before that time. The voices...

But her temporary home in Shropshire, though a bomb fell nearby, felt safer than her house in the London suburbs, which was encircled by very serious bombings,machine-gunning and anti-aircraft firing, with crashes...

Czechoslovakia Fights Back, printed on flimsy wartime economy paper, is a moving document. Its opening sentence runs: Czechoslovakia was the first non-German country to experience a Nazi occupation and has thus had longer than...

GM issued through her usual publisher, Hodder and Stoughton , Two Star Red. A Book about R.A.F. Mountain Rescue.

He had been diverted from physical training instruction in the RAF in 1951, following a horrific plane crash in Scotland, into the field of mountain rescue. From early 1952 he headed the RAF mountain rescue...

EN sold Well Hall, which she could not afford to keep up, and moved with her second husband, the Skipper , to two converted RAF huts outside the village of St Mary in the...

WP used patois for the first time in A Hero's Welcome, and found it liberating. Set in the Caribbean in 1947, this play features three young women looking for a path in life and...

AR and her husband had two daughters and two sons, and in due course six or more grandchildren and the same number of great-grandchildren. Their daughter Jane was born on the snowy night of...

This text details Stark's attempt to reach the buried site of Shabwa; this failed when she experienced an angina attack and was rescued by the RAF . Harry St John Philby became the first...