The incredible story of the goings-on in hotels like the Ritz, Dorchester, Claridge's and the Savoy in WW II involving those who worked and those who stayed there. Amongst other historically shocking facts, foreign personnel were marched without warning or justice out of the restaurants to be incarcerated behind barbed wire at Ascot racecouse. Based on the memories of first-hand witnesses and newly declassified government files, well-researched, scurrilous, fascinating and entertaining but humourous it is not.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 68 Spring 2013 ) |
