Ten stories were included in the first edition of August 1940, namely “The Admiralty Regrets…,” “George and Jimmy,” “Over the Ration Books,” “A Nation's Strength,” “A Miner's Tale,” “Physician, Heal Thyself,” “Spitfire Megan,” “The Revolutionary,” “London, 1940?” and “Mrs. Hill and the Soldiers.” An eleventh story, entitled “In a London Air-Raid Shelter,” was added when a “New and Revised” edition came out in November of the same year.