PROPS ON HER SLEEVE by Mary Hawkins Buch, Carolyn Gossage ( 9781550022940 )

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Title:

PROPS ON HER SLEEVE
THE WARTIME LETTERS OF A CANADIAN AIRWOMAN

By:

Mary Hawkins Buch, Carolyn Gossage

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1550022946

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9781550022940

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Publisher:

DUNDURN GROUP LTD

Pub. date:

29 October, 1997

Pages:

174

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Synopsis:

A first-hand account of the experiences of a young Canadian airwoman who served both in Canada and on overseas duty, this series of 150 letters brings home the day-to-day immediacy of life in uniform during the Second World War. Moments of hilarity interspersed with impatience and frustration are recorded verbatim, along with an underlying sense of urgency about winning a war that hung in the balance for too long. Written to the Dead of Women at Macdonald College in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Mary Buch's letters lay untouched for over fifty years after her return to Canada from England in 1945. Today they serve as a looking-glass into the War Years that is tinged with the freshness of youthful spontaneity and the promise of a brighter tomorrow. Carolyn Gossage has interwoven colourful contextual sidebars that provide today's reader with an overview of times and circumstances that have become increasingly elusive in the intervening years.

Illustrations:

black & white illustrations

Publication:

Canada

Imprint:

Dundurn Group Ltd

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