Here is the enchanting series of letters between Mirren Barford, a twenty-year-old Oxford University student, and the dashing John "Jock" Lewes, a lieutenant in the Welsh Guards, who was one of the founders of what is still Britain's most romantic, daring and secret army, the renowned Special Air Service (SAS). Jock's and Mirren's letters, which were discovered by Mirren's son at the time of her death in 1992, tell the story of their vibrant and complex relationship, revealing moments of exceptional feeling, artful imagination, erotic passion and philosophical musing.

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