Secret Letters

This is a unique book. Using for the first time the full unpublished letters of Pilot Officer Geoffrey Myers it offers a fresh and distinctive insight into World War 2.While Geoffrey Myers was a caught up in the major turning points of the early years of that war - the Battle for France, Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain - his French wife and two half-Jewish children were trapped in Nazi-occupied France, desperate to escape the enemy and be reunited with her husband in England.These secret letters were never posted and never read by Geoffrey¿s family until later in the war. They were designed to be read if he was killed. They begin, ¿Three months now, and I have kept silent. I have been hoping to write letters that would reach you. I have been wanting to do something that would help you to escape from Occupied France and to get us all out of this living grave.¿Contemporary personal accounts of the Battle of Britain of such frankness are extremely rare. Individual narratives on this sca