Props on her sleeve the wartime letters of a Canadian airwoman

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 re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Buch, Mary Hawkins (-)
Otros Autores: Gossage, Carolyn, 1933-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : Dundurn Press 1997.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3154888x*spi
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Sumario: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. T.
Descripción Física:171 p. : il
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781554882717