Secret Letters

A Battle of Britain Love Story

These Secret Letters were written by Pilot Officer Geoffrey Myers during the Second World War. They were never posted. With fresh insights into the struggle of war, they were designed to be read by his family if he was killed in the Battle of Britain.

Myers was witness to key turning points in the early years of the war - the Battle of Britain and Dunkirk. At the same time his wife Margot, and two small children, were trapped in Nazi-occupied France, desperate to escape the enemy.

As a Daily Telegraph journalist before the war, Myers writes with eloquence and perception. Since his handwritten notebooks were not designed to be published, the letters are an unvarnished, sometimes brutal, portrayal of war that saw terrible losses within his squadron.

While Myers wrote his deeply personal experiences for his family to read, they, too, were in mortal danger. As a Jew, he understood only too well what would happen if the Nazis discovered his children. For many months he had no idea if they were dead or alive, free or imprisoned.

Contemporary personal accounts of such frankness are extremely rare. Individual narratives on this scale, encompassing two of the great turning points of the war just do not exist. The secret letters from Geoffrey Myers to his family offer a new perspective, as well as telling a powerful love story between two people caught up in the crossfire of war.