We Did What We Could

Three girls who are best friends in an English school love to pull pranks, including setting the headmistress' car on top of a footbridge. Maggie becomes a journalist, a personal assistant to an Air Marshall during the Battle of Britain, and then a military journalist. Agnes is trained as a nurse, serving in London during the early months of the Blitz. Ellie, whose father is a Dutch diplomat, studies language and theater, living in Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
From helping a midwife's daughter become presented to the King as a titled lady to a dramatic rescue as the climax of the book, the three girls become women, suffer loves and deaths, using their wits and talents as best they can.