Props on Her Sleeve:
The Wartime Letters of a Canadian Airwoman
The Wartime Letters of a Canadian Airwoman
by Mary Hawkins Buch
with Carolyn Gossage
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 Dean 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.see also:
Greatcoats and Glamour Boots
A Close Look At The Past and Present Of The Most Famous Book Fair Of Them All
A story of courage during WWII
The most surprising sketchbooks of a Victorian gentlewoman
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