Eileen Younghusband

World War Two Veteran

One Woman’s War (2011)

 

Books

Winston Churchill immortalized the fighter pilots who won the Battle of Britain as “The Few”. But behind them was another group -even fewer and mostly women– whose work wass too secret to acknowledge.

Eileen Younghusband worked in the Filter Room, calculating the targets of the Luftwaffe’s bombing fleet from information supplied by Britain’s pioneering Radar network. Barely out of her teens, she and her fellow Filterers were making life or death decisions. Eileen tells the little known story of the Filter Room and describes her own experience of World War Two...providing tea and sympathy for soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk...living through the Blitz...hunting V2 rocket launches in Belgium...acting as a “guide” at a liberated concentration camp. Against this background is a personal story of love and loss, and encounters with a cast of characters—from prostitutes to film starts—thrown together by war.

It reads like a novel. But every word is true.

Not an Ordinary Life (2009)

 

To Contact me:

E-mail: le.croissette@virgin.net

From London suburbs to French au pair, city clerk to secret War Room, V2 detection to VE-Day, concentration camp guide to language teacher, pig breeder to busy hotelier and scrap metal Queen—then bachelor’s degree in my eighty-seventh year!

 

How changing times brought historical events into my life.