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London ambulance service
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Second World War
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the Blitz
women volunteers

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  • ISBN 9781912766789
  • Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Jan 2024
  • Publisher: Handheld Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
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Middle-aged Mildred is at war. Shes driving an ambulance in London during the Blitz, terrified but determined to do her bit while the bombs rain down. Shes living at her friend Daphnes house, sleeping in the living room alongside other women volunteers on mattresses, being cooked for by the redoubtable Mrs Dove, and working her shifts at the ambulance station. She sees the nightly destruction of Londons buildings and streets close-up and death at first hand.

Nine years after Business as Usual, author and illustrator Ann Staffords experiences in the Blitz bring British history back to life. Her novel is a fascinating report from the front lines of the Home Front in the darkest days of the war. Her heroes are the volunteers, the women and men who picked up the pieces and the bodies after the bombs stopped falling. Until the next raid ....

Ann Staffords inimitable illustrations add authentic glimpses of life under fire on the Home Front. 

With an Introduction by Jessica Hammett, University of Bristol.
About Ann Stafford
Ann Stafford was the pen-name of Anne Isabel Stafford Branfoot, later Pedler (1901-66).  Her family came from County Durham, where her grandfather ran the Tyzack and Branfoot Steam Shipping Company, which he left after the First World War. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and Newnham College Cambridge, where she graduated in French and Russian. She completed a PhD at Kings College London in 1926 in Russian social history. She also studied art in Paris during the university vacations, and her illustrations to some of her books are skilled and arresting. She married the barrister Tom Simpson Pedler (1891-1975) in 1926, but was no longer living with him from the early 1930s, by which time she had a son, John. She worked at the Times Book Club in the early 1930s, where Helen Evans was her secretary. She and Helen collaborated on their first joint novel, Business as Usual (1933), as well as on newspaper features. Ann became a children's author and the author of romance and historical novels from the 1930s to 1960s, including many written with Helen as Jane Oliver, and under a joint pen-name as Joan Blair. Ann met the Polish writer Michael Misha Lubin at an International PEN Club meeting in France in the 1930s, and she was able to sponsor Lubin and his family to come to the UK before Nazi Germany prevented Polish Jews from leaving at the beginning of the Second World War. During the war Ann was a volunteer ambulance driver from the Paddington ambulance station and was in charge of an East End advice bureau. After Helens husband was killed in 1940 she shared Anns house with her and John in St Johns Wood, London. Later the two close friends lived next door to each other in North Gorley, Fordingbridge, Hampshire. Ann died in 1966 in Salisbury, looked after by Helen. Jessica Hammett is a historian at the University of Bristol.