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.
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