Books: Fortitude

WHERE STANDS A WINGED SENTRY—Margaref Kennedy—Yale ($2).

When people in the future want to know what Britain was really like between the Nazi invasion of the Low Countries and the great bombings of London, this slightly refurbished journal of Margaret Kennedy (The Constant Nymph) is one of the books they will read.

Mrs. Kennedy was never in London during the blitz. She hovered over her two small daughters, small son and foster daughter at a quiet west coast resort. But the war she describes is the real war of nerves that went on in the minds of all Britons on the home front...

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