Under Fire: The Blitz diaries of a volunteer ambulance driver

A gripping eyewitness account of hidden impact of war on the home front.

'We would say to each other "here it comes" and would listen to the whining whizz which sounded like it was for us every time.'

DANVERS STREET AMBULANCE STATION, 8 September 1940

London in the summer of 1940. June Spencer volunteers for the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service in Chelsea. Every night she writes up the day's events in her diary, whether it's driving in a hail of incendiaries, peeling potatoes for the crews, ...