Some of these chapters were printed, in more or less the same form, but over a nom de plume, in The Church Times.   They appear here with the generous permission of the proprietor of that journal.

The whole is dedicated in affection and admiration to the men and women of East London who remained there between 1939 and 1945, and in particular to those of the district known as East Two, by no means excluding Mother Cicely and the Sisters of St Saviours Priory.