Lucy Fisher is a journalist and author. She is Whitehall Editor at the Financial Times and host of the FT’s Political Fix podcast, and has published two books. Previously she was Chief Political Correspondent and then Defence Editor at The Times, and later Chief Political Commentator at Times Radio.
Lucy has appeared regularly on the BBC and Sky News, including the programmes Newsnight, Westminster Hour, Today, World At One, PM and The Papers.
She is an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the world’s oldest think tank.
She lives in London with her husband and daughter.
Women in the War: The Last Heroines of Britain’s Greatest Generation
Poignant and inspiring, Women in the War tells the first-hand stories of ten of the last surviving female members of Britain’s ‘Greatest Generation’.
Whether flying Spitfires to the frontline, aiding code breaking at Bletchley Park, plotting the Battle of the Atlantic or working with Churchill in the Cabinet War Rooms, each of these women made a crucial contribution to the conflict overseas and helped to buttress the home front.
Here they recount their remarkable experiences during the Second World War, recalling how their formative years were shaped by danger and trauma, and how friendship and romance fortified their spirits.
Drawing on the insight that comes with age, they contemplate how the conflict helped women prove their worth, transforming society and sparking the later battles for equal rights.
With a reporter’s eye for detail, Lucy Fisher artfully weaves together moving contemporary interviews with gripping wartime diaries and letters. This is a vivid oral history that will stay with you long after you’ve put it down.