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PROPS ON HER SLEEVE: THE WARTIME LETTERS OF A CANADIAN AIRWOMAN.
by Buch, Mary Hawkins, with Gossage, Caroline
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1550022946
- ISBN 13
- 9781550022940
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1997. 171 pp, 8vo (9" H). Inscribed by author on title page. B&w photographs. "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 readers with an overview of the times and circumstances that have become increasingly elusive in the intervening years." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, slight soft crease to top corner of rear cover - with very light migration into last few papges, spine flat and uncreased. . Inscribed By Author. First Edition. Soft Cover with Self Flaps. Very Good+.
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- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10716
- Title
- PROPS ON HER SLEEVE: THE WARTIME LETTERS OF A CANADIAN AIRWOMAN.
- Author
- Buch, Mary Hawkins, with Gossage, Caroline
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1550022946
- ISBN 13
- 9781550022940
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- World War II, Canadians, Airwomen, Women in war, RCAF, Royal Canadian Air Force, Women's Division, Correspondence, Letters, Personal narratives, Reminiscences, Biography, Lincolnshire, Lincoln.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military - World War II; Military - Aviation; Canada - Biography; Women in History;
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About the Seller
Capricorn Books
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Oakville, Ontario
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- Title Page
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