Three Nights in Winter (and other love stories of WWII)
Genre: Kindle Edition
Brand: Alison Carter
Author: Alison Carter
Price: £0.00
Five short stories about finding love in wartime
Three Nights in Winter
Vera Parry isn’t best pleased to be sent to work at the Grammar School in Swansea. One freezing night in 1941, as enemy bombs set the city terrifyingly alight, Vera and shy history teacher Mr Elkins find themselves alone in the school, apart from two sick boys and a table for shelter.
The Idle Woman
It’s 1943. Gwen is one of the ‘Idle Women’, transporting cargo up and down the canal network. When Gwen meets handsome lock keeper William Brewer, will love take her away from the hardship and the engine grease?
The Quiet Englishman
Alma is one of the good-looking, sassy American girls sent to cheer up US forces on their UK bases. They travel round in a converted truck, handing out cigarettes, donuts and flirtation. When quiet Lieutenant Boyd is detailed to train Alma to drive the Clubmobile, he gets more than he bargained for …
An Unsuitable Girl
Jimmy Dacres falls in love with the first pretty girl he meets when he’s released from a POW camp in the jungle. Gloria is a singer with an ENSA troupe – brassy in lipstick and high heels. When they get back home, Jimmy’s family decide he’s really made a mistake with this one …
The Fields of France
Farmer’s daughter Hélène Trouvy is playing a very dangerous game editing a Resistance propaganda newspaper. The rule in the Resistance is ‘trust no one’. So when a tall, gorgeous stranger turns up in town, and Hélène falls in love, how is she to know if he’s friend or spy, sympathiser or collaborator?
Three Nights in Winter
Vera Parry isn’t best pleased to be sent to work at the Grammar School in Swansea. One freezing night in 1941, as enemy bombs set the city terrifyingly alight, Vera and shy history teacher Mr Elkins find themselves alone in the school, apart from two sick boys and a table for shelter.
The Idle Woman
It’s 1943. Gwen is one of the ‘Idle Women’, transporting cargo up and down the canal network. When Gwen meets handsome lock keeper William Brewer, will love take her away from the hardship and the engine grease?
The Quiet Englishman
Alma is one of the good-looking, sassy American girls sent to cheer up US forces on their UK bases. They travel round in a converted truck, handing out cigarettes, donuts and flirtation. When quiet Lieutenant Boyd is detailed to train Alma to drive the Clubmobile, he gets more than he bargained for …
An Unsuitable Girl
Jimmy Dacres falls in love with the first pretty girl he meets when he’s released from a POW camp in the jungle. Gloria is a singer with an ENSA troupe – brassy in lipstick and high heels. When they get back home, Jimmy’s family decide he’s really made a mistake with this one …
The Fields of France
Farmer’s daughter Hélène Trouvy is playing a very dangerous game editing a Resistance propaganda newspaper. The rule in the Resistance is ‘trust no one’. So when a tall, gorgeous stranger turns up in town, and Hélène falls in love, how is she to know if he’s friend or spy, sympathiser or collaborator?