Love in the Blitz. Eileen Alexander

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Foreword by Oswyn Murray

      In the autumn of 2017 I received an email from an unknown correspondent:

      Dear Mr Murray,

      I hope you will forgive the intrusion, but I recently purchased a large quantity of wartime correspondence, via eBay, written by Eileen Alexander (soon to be Ellenbogen) in which I have found many references to your father, as Eileen worked with him in S9 at the Air Ministry during World War Two. I attach details of a weekend she spent with your family in Summer 1943. I have considered long and hard whether this is the right thing to do, and am basing my decision on the fact that if