Patten, Eve (2012), Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning's fictions of war, Cork University Press, ISBN 978-1-85918-482-0, OCLC 766340331 .

Manning did not acknowledge these books until the 1960s; their publication dates might have given away her age, a secret she kept even from her husband. a b DeCoste, Damon Marcel (2005), "The literary response to the Second World War", in Shaffer, Brian W. The British characters in Manning's novels almost all assume the legitimacy of British superiority and imperialism and struggle with their position as oppressors who are unwelcome in countries they have been brought up to believe welcome their colonising influence. She was unable to have further children and in the future directed her maternal feelings towards animals, especially cats.a b c Barbera, Jack; McBrien, William (1985), Stevie, a biography of Stevie Smith, London: Heinemann, pp. a b Rossen, Janice (2003), Women writing modern fiction: a passion for ideas, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.

Egypt remains a place of privilege and sexual exchange for the non-combatants and the Pringles' marriage slowly disintegrates. A lecturer and passionate Communist, Guy is attached to a British Council educational establishment in Bucharest ( Romania) when war breaks out, and the couple are forced to leave the country, passing through Athens and ending up in Cairo, Egypt. It goes on to chronicle the British retreat from Greece to Egypt as the Axis forces advance in terms of its impact on the everyday lives of the expatriate community. As she had feared, real fame only came after her death in 1980, when an adaptation of Fortunes of War was televised in 1987.Guy struggles to find work when it emerges that an old adversary is in charge of the English School. The café society, with its wit and gossip, appealed to her, but she was repelled by the peasantry and the aggressive, often mutilated, beggars. Soon after, Miles learnt that he had an inoperable brain tumour, and disappeared from Manning's life. Here, for example, is a description of a newsreel in 1940, which might equally be describing the road out of Mariupol in 2022: On the day that news came of the bombing of Paris, a last French film reached Bucharest, like a last cry out of France.