New life and near death for Ambulance Girl

It's the middle of October 1940 and the bombs are getting closer and closer. Fear and exhaustion grip Londoners who are beginning to wonder how much longer the Blitz will last, and how much more they can take. But they must hold on. They must show Jerry that they will not be broken.

In the midst of all the noise, debris and fear comes the miracle of new life, a baby born in the rubble during an air raid, delivered by Ambulance Girl. Days later Ambulance Girl wakes from a haze of confusion, her body throbbing, lungs full of grit, head swirling with fragments of memory to learn she is lucky to be alive after a parachute bomb exploded nearby.

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