Royal Air Force

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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

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

H. D. first met, after an eighteen-month correspondence, with Hugh, Lord Dowding , who had headed the RAF 's Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and was now an active spiritualist and theosophist.

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

As a teenager she socialized with trainee British pilots at a Royal Air Force base near Johannesburg.

This is a book about Inge's loves: her lost, buried love for her parents, her all-consuming love for her brother (to whom she feels deeply, inherently inferior), her love for baby Georgie (who, after they...

Her father, Victor Valentine Gee , was dominant in the household. He was a socialist, an Old Labour man, yet at home he was an unreconstructed conservative authoritarian. He had been born into...

The opening pages of her second book of memoirs give a sketch of her brother John, farming under dreadful wartime difficulty in Kent, the family estate having been requisitioned for the RAF .

Alison's father, Andrew Fell, was an engine mechanic in peace-time and an airman in the RAF during the Second World War, when Alison was born. He bombed Hamburg and Dresden and D Day France, and...

RF married the man with whom she had been living for years, Alan Sillitoe (former RAF radio operator, now a suddenly successful novelist), at Marylebone Town Hall in London.