THE WAR BRIDES

PMA Books, Toronto, 1978, 1^st.  ISBN 0-88778-185-3.  Hard cover, 160 pages.  Very good; blue cloth with silver lettering on spine; light corner and spine end wear; binding sound.  Dust jacket shows edge and cover wear, short edge tears, wear at corners and spine ends; panels sunned with sticker ghost on front.  Illustrated end papers; interior clean and unmarked; black & white photos.  ‘As the Second World War drew to a close in Europe, some forty thousand women from Britain and the Continent cut ties with home and family to begin a new life in Canada.  … sixty of these women recall the war years in Europe, their meetings with husbands, their emotion-charged farewells and that long Atlantic crossing …  With humour and insight their first-person accounts reveal the drama, romance, pain and laughter of a little known part of Canada’s recent past.’ (from front flap)