personal narratives, british

Provides an account of Operation Mincemeat, a World War II scheme devised by British counterintelligence agent Ewen Montagu in 1943 to delude the Germans into believing the Allies were planning to invade Greece, when in fact they were aiming for Sicily.

An account of a young child living in Lydney, England, during World War II including memories of air raids, gas masks, rationing, and war news as well as routines of family, friends, and school.

Presents a collection of letters, diary entries, and journals of the people who lived through World War Two in Britain.

Not realizing the probable length of World War II, her English parents left Antonia Lyon-Smith behind in Brittany in 1939 at age 14.

On t.p.: An abridgement of the six volumes of The Second World War with an epilogue by the author on the postwar years written for this volume.

The author presents the story of her great-grandmother Lilla's life growing up in a privileged family in North China and the cookbook she composed at age sixty while held prisoner by the Japanese during World War Two.