Dressed For War

Magnificent … [Audrey] Withers … has walk-on parts in the biographies of the photographers Lee Miller, Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn and Norman Parkinson, all of whom she nurtured … Summers’ task, then, was to round those pre-existing snippets, along with acres of correspondence, into flesh, and she has done it superbly … Dressed for War works on many levels: as an evocation of an uncommon time; as a celebration of an uncommon woman; as pure, unalloyed fun. – Lucy Davies * The Daily Telegraph *Audrey Withers was just the woman to run a style bible in wartime. – Ysenda Maxtone Graham * The Times *

Julie Summers is a bestselling author and historian. Her books include:

• Fearless on Everest: The Quest for Sandy Irvine
• The Colonel of Tamarkan, a biography of her grandfather, the man who built the ‘real’ bridge on the River Kwai
• Stranger in the House, a social history of servicemen reuniting with their families after the Second World War
• When the Children Came Home, which tells the story of returning evacuees

Her book Jambusters was the inspiration for ITV’s hit drama series Home Fires, which ran for two seasons in 2015–16. She lives in Oxford.

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