Brave Faces (eBook, ePUB)
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Partner: | buecher.de |
Hersteller: | Troubador Publishing Ltd (Arden, Mary) |
Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Brave Faces is Mary Arden´s story as she moves from her privileged English upbringing to dealing with the realities of World War II. Mary´s memoir gives an insight into the changes in society that took place with the advent of war. As the Second World War breaks out, Mary´s parents are determined that their daughter´s privileged upbringing should continue, and that life should carry on as much as normal. She is sent to finishing school and becomes a debutante attending ´coming out´ balls in London, despite the nightly bombing raids. However, Mary is determined to do her bit for the war effort, and volunteers to serve as a Red Cross Nurse, before joining the WRNS. Accepted into the WRNS, not as an officer, but as ´other rank´, Mary has to learn to live a very different kind of life to the one she was brought up to expect. She is used to being chaperoned, only talking to men she has been ´introduced´ to, so it´s an almost impossible task for her Senior WREN Officer to find a...
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