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Props on Her Sleeve: The Wartime Letters of a Canadian Airwoman
Props on Her Sleeve: The Wartime Letters of a Canadian Airwoman
Props on Her Sleeve: The Wartime Letters of a Canadian Airwoman
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Props on Her Sleeve: The Wartime Letters of a Canadian Airwoman

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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.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherDundurn
Release dateOct 29, 1997
ISBN9781459713192
Props on Her Sleeve: The Wartime Letters of a Canadian Airwoman
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Carolyn Gossage

Carolyn Gossage is the author of books on Ethiopian icons and crosses. She has also published a number of historical titles, including Greatcoats and Glamour Boots and The History of the Frankfurt Book Fair. She lives in Toronto and has taught history and English in Canada and abroad for over twenty years. She is also the author of a number of books including: A Question of Privilege, Canada's Independent Schools (1977).

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    Buch served overseas from 1943 to 1945 in the RCAF Women's Division. Most of her service was on bomber bases in Lincolnshire where she mainly worked preparing maps for the navigators guiding bombers to Germany. As the letters were written during the war, they had to be written with the censor in mind so details of her work are vague. However the details of her social life and the people she met on her travels around England are many.If you wish to read about the social life and conditions of living in England during this period, this volume has much to ponder. There are also many details of life for a woman serving in the armed forces. She also has much to say about the difference in attitudes toward the treatment of by English women as opposed to Canadian women.Some photos included.

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