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Esdaile Carter uses contemporary letters and documents along with modern histories to tell the story of Jack, the pilot of a Halifax heavy bomber and Freda, a Quaker pacifist. Most of the events take place in 1943, when the Battles of the Rhur and of Berlin were beginning. The letters describe the lives of Jack, who flies mainly to Germany from RAF Melbourne near York, and of Freda, who lives in the bombed-out East End of London and works in the Friends Ambulance Unit office in the day and in air-raid shelters in Wapping by the river Thames at night. In 1944 Freda is posted to Cairo and travels to Syria. She is then sent to Naples and Rome. When the war ends, she is back in London.

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Esdaile Carter grew up in Oxford, England and lived in Central America, Panama, the USA and Mexico for a number of years before returning to Oxfordshire. Having studied English Literature with the university of London, the resulting thesis was about poetry of war in the Renaissance. A study of public and private memorials of war for the thesis is of abiding interest. The relatively new emphasis on detailed personal experience to explain very public events is inspiring for writers like Esdaile Carter.

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