SEND MORE SHROUDS (V1 ATTACK/ GUARDS CHAPEL 1944) (HB)

The V1 attack on the Guards’ Chapel in London was the deadliest of its kind of the Second World War, and Jan Gore’s painstakingly researched, graphic and moving account of the bombing and the aftermath tells the whole story. In vivid detail she describes the rescue effort which went on, day and night, for two days, and she records the names, circumstances and lives of each of the victims. Her work gives us today an absorbing insight into the wartime experience of all those whose lives were affected by it.