Diana Athill
Scared of Nothing but Their Fathers
Debs at War: How Wartime Changed Their Lives, 1939–1945
By Anne de Courcy
Weidenfeld & Nicolson xxpp £18.99 order from our bookshop
It was a good idea of Anne de Courcy’s to round up forty-seven well-bred women who were debutantes (in the social sense) when war broke out in 1939, and get them to remember their wartime experiences. She captures within one book a vivid impression of those years, a short history of the women’s services, a closely focused view of an exotic corner of social history, and a lot of human interest. It all makes riveting reading.
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