Sheila Mills's story is a unique perspective of the Second World War. She is a clever, middle-class Norfolk girl with a yen for adventure and joins the WRNS in 1940 to escape the shackles of secretarial work in London, her unhappy childhood and her social-climbing mother.
A collection of letters home telling the loves and struggles of a young Wren, Sheila Mills, during WWII. Her experiences included working with Admiral Ramsey planning the invasion of Sicily, and she was witness to the sinking of the Medway, the surrender of the Italian Fleet and the Belsen Trials.
