Good story and I really appreciate your research.

Really well done. I loved the weaving-in of a new character, and a war, into their adult lives. I thought that Bridget sounded completely in character - and you know, it's no small thing to take a girl who is maybe five or eight the last time we hear from her, and turn her into a sixteen year old (sixteen? or seventeen? My computer won't let me check now) without losing her voice. But you did an excellent job. I did sort of expect Roger or John or someone - hey, even Nancy - to do the protective-older-brother bit and demand that your protagonist clarify his intentions. I mean, she brought him in to meet her family. We know that he really is just a soldier she ran into who bought her a cup of tea, but if Bridgie is anything like she was growing up, I'd think her family would suspect her of hiding boyfriends and sneaking around a little, and just be a little less than complacent about any boy she brought home. Bridget always reminds me of Nancy in the glimpses we get of her, and after an extremely well-behaved oldest sister and a middle one who tells her mother practically everything, I'd think that Bridgie would opt to do things a little differently.

This was incredibly moving, and at the same time thoroughly enlightening. A fantastic weaving of actual british history into the lives of the adult Swallows and Amazons whilst really making the reader feel that this could have happened. Well done! Smile!