Under Fire: The Blitz Diaries of a Volunteer Ambulance Driver

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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, or loading broken and bleeding victims into her ambulance. She also records her hectic social life – dining at the Ritz, ...