Overview
William L White, "Bill White" of Kansas, went to England with a private memo - "uplook kids." This memo, in cablese, recorded his desire to adopt an English child. Not long after he landed in England, White found Margaret, who at this time was three and a half years old.
Margaret was White's personal job in England, and this is his personal book about Margaret and her England. His public job was writing dispatches for America, and he made it his business to see, hear, and feel all phases of the war. He spend nights at the R. A. F. flying posts, watching the bombers go off to Germany. He went mine-sweeping in the English Channel. He was bombed himself. This is the fiery background for Margaret, the little girl White was finally able to adopt and bring to America.
With the thoughts, speech, and action of an embattled people focussed through the story of a child, the reader feels as if he is reading for the first time the human story of England at war.