Recollections Of A Gi War Bride

Author : Margaret Wharton
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595365914
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talk of Many Things written by Margaret Wharton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her fourth book of memoirs, Margaret Wharton continues her G.I. bride reminiscences as she paints a picture of life in England before, during, and after World War II. Emphasizing the years from her arrival in the United States until her retirement in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, she tells of her initial homesickness as she is assimilated into a new way of life and describes her years as a housewife in a small suburban town as she raises two sons and resumes her teaching career. She relates the many travels that she and her husband made together, the accounts taken from the detailed journals she assiduously kept of the trips. She also tells something of the Southern family she married into and goes on to talk of the retirement life she and her husband lead in Chapel Hill. Her book is a highly polished piece of work comprising an ingenious blend of people, places, history, geography, and literature. Mrs. Wharton has a vast knowledge of history and excellent control of language along with a vivid descriptive flair. She reproduces her experiences with clarity and conviction. Talk of Many Things offers a colorful, informative, and individual account of a unique experience shared by a number of young women, not only from England, but from many other countries, in the immediate post war years.

Author : Margaret H. Wharton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recollections of a GI War Bride written by Margaret H. Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Duncan Barrett
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062328069
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love written by Duncan Barrett and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They left everything behind to follow their hearts. . . . True stories that illuminate the experiences of British war brides in America after World War II American soldiers stationed in the UK came away winning more than just a war, they also won the hearts of young women across Britain. At the end of World War II, more than 70,000 GI brides followed the men they'd married—men they barely knew—to begin a new life in the United States. Meet four of these women: Sylvia Bradley, a loyal, bright-eyed optimist Rae Brewer, a resourceful, quick-witted tomboy Margaret Boyle, an English beauty who faced down every challenge Gwendolyn Rowe, a brave woman ahead of her time Though all made the bold choice to leave family and the world they knew, the journey each experienced was unique—ranging from romantic to heartbreaking. Fascinating and unforgettable, GI Brides pays homage to these brave women, propelled by love and hope, who embarked on an adventure that would change their lives.

Author : Susan Zeiger
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814797172
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entangling Alliances written by Susan Zeiger and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century, American male soldiers returned home from wars with foreign-born wives in tow, often from allied but at times from enemy nations, resulting in a new, official category of immigrant: the “allied” war bride. These brides began to appear en masse after World War I, peaked after World War II, and persisted through the Korean and Vietnam Wars. GIs also met and married former “enemy” women under conditions of postwar occupation, although at times the US government banned such unions. In this comprehensive, complex history of war brides in 20th-century American history, Susan Zeiger uses relationships between American male soldiers and foreign women as a lens to view larger issues of sexuality, race, and gender in United States foreign relations. Entangling Alliances draws on a rich array of sources to trace how war and postwar anxieties about power and national identity have long been projected onto war brides, and how these anxieties translate into public policies, particularly immigration.

Author : Jenel Virden
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252065286
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good-bye, Piccadilly written by Jenel Virden and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the women came to the U.S. from all parts of the British Isles, they were an unusually homogeneous group, averaging 23 years of age, from working- or lower-middle-class families and having completed mandatory schooling to the age of fourteen. For the most part they emigrated alone and didn't move into an existing immigrant population.

Author : Hilary Kaiser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984004331
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French War Brides written by Hilary Kaiser and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following both World War I and II, about 6,500 Franco-American marriages took place between French mademoiselles and American soldiers, be they "doughboys" or GI's. These women, who came from different parts of France and diverse background, would later cross the Atlantic to join husbands, settle in various corners of America, suffer culture shock, and adapt to marriage in a foreign land of postwar plenty with varying degrees of success. Despite these difficulties, like many other immigrants, they got on with it and survived. As the compelling oral histories in this book show, most of them did, in their own way, live the American dream.

Author : Elfrieda Be Shukert
Publisher : Random House Value Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780517072028
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Brides of World War II written by Elfrieda Be Shukert and published by Random House Value Pub. This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elfrieda Berthiaume Shukert
Publisher : Viking Press
ISBN 13 : 9780140116793
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Brides of World War II written by Elfrieda Berthiaume Shukert and published by Viking Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with war brides from England, Italy, France, Germany, and the Far East depict their courtship, first impressions of America, and the challenges of starting a new life

Author : Duncan Barrett
Publisher : HarperLuxe
ISBN 13 : 9780062344304
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book GI Brides written by Duncan Barrett and published by HarperLuxe. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers enchanted by the bestsellers The Astronaut Wives Club, The Girls of Atomic City, and Summer at Tiffany’s, an absorbing tale of romance and resilience—the true story of four British women who crossed the Atlantic for love, coming to America at the end of World War II to make a new life with the American servicemen they married. The “friendly invasion” of Britain by over a million American G.I.s bewitched a generation of young women deprived of male company during the Second World War. With their exotic accents, smart uniforms, and aura of Hollywood glamour, the G.I.s easily conquered their hearts, leaving British boys fighting abroad green with envy. But for girls like Sylvia, Margaret, Gwendolyn, and even the skeptical Rae, American soldiers offered something even more tantalizing than chocolate, chewing gum, and nylon stockings: an escape route from Blitz-ravaged Britain, an opportunity for a new life in affluent, modern America. Through the stories of these four women, G.I. Brides illuminates the experiences of war brides who found themselves in a foreign culture thousands of miles away from family and friends, with men they hardly knew. Some struggled with the isolation of life in rural America, or found their soldier less than heroic in civilian life. But most persevered, determined to turn their wartime romance into a lifelong love affair, and prove to those back home that a Hollywood ending of their own was possible. G.I. Brides includes an eight-pages insert that features 45-black-and-white photos.

Author : Jonathan Rose
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300257848
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes written by Jonathan Rose and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain's working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. A new preface addresses the continuing relevance of the book amidst the upheavals of the present day. "An astonishing book."--Ian Sansom, The Guardian "A passionate work of history. . . . Rose has written a work of staggering ambition."--Daniel Akst, Wall Street Journal Winner of the SHARP Book History Prize, the American Philosophical Society's Jacques Barzun Prize, and the British Council Prize cowinner of the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize for 2001; named one of the finest books of 2001 by The Economist.