War Crimes for the Home

by Liz Jensen | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 074756146x Global Overview for this book
Registered by rem_STP-921375 on 5/17/2006
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Journal Entry 1 by rem_STP-921375 on Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Saving for the NSS/Unconvention thingy. Enjoy, Mystery Person!

"`You know what they say about GIs and English girls’ knickers,’ ran the wartime joke, `One Yank and they’re off.’ When Gloria met Ron, he was an American pilot who thought nothing of getting hit by shrapnel in the cockpit. She was working in a munitions factory in Bristol during the Blitz, but still found time to grab what she wanted. Ciggies. Sex. American soldiers. But war has an effect on people. Gloria did all sorts of things she wouldn’t normally do - evil things, some of them - because she might be dead tomorrow. Or someone might.
Now, fifty years on, it’s payback time. In her old folks' home, Gloria is forced to remember the real truth about her and Ron, and confront the secret at the heart of her dramatic home front story.
In a gripping, vibrant evocation of wartime Britain, Liz Jensen explores the dark impulses of women whose war crimes are committed on the home front, in the name of sex, survival, greed, and love ."

Journal Entry 2 by chelseagirl from Faringdon, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on Monday, July 3, 2006
Ooh, thank you!!!!! This has been on my wish list for ages, after I read another book by the author and really enjoyed it. Can't wait to read this one!!! Thanks also for the chocolate and the funky pen, which my daughter is very jealous of :0)

lovely to meet you - see you next year!

Journal Entry 3 by lperry001 at Thame, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on Friday, January 11, 2019
This book has come to me in a large box of books. I will pass it on somehow (I'm new to book crossing) and see where it goes next.

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