This was a pleasant enough read but far too short. The characters were very two-dimensional and didn't elicit much emotion from me. The description of the bomb attack at Christmas just didn't feel very real. Glad to finish this with a very contrived ending of the doctor and nurse getting together - more like Mills and Boon. ( )

This is one of Lucilla Andrews' later books that take place during the Second World War, and draw on her own nursing experiences. While her WWII novels are still considered romances, the romantic element is secondary to the war itself. The descriptions of bombs dropping around the hospitals, and the convoys of of injured soldiers are immediate and vivid, while the daily hardships of shortages of necessities and sheer exhaustion pervade the books.

After A Famous Victory is a short book, only 169 pages, and episodic. Most of the story takes place over four or five nights throughout November and December 1943, in a ward of severely injured soldiers at a hospital in the British countryside. As in most of her novels, there is a somewhat unrealistic romance, but the focus of the story is the soldiers and the war. Despite its short length, the book gives a strong impression of a vicious war that has been going on for four years, with no end in sight. ( )