AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
War brides.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
SIR: My gratitude to Fred Blanks for his favourable review of Likely Lads and Lasses (March 2006). His suggestion for a fourth book (I had to look up tetralogy) about war brides is welcome, but a little late. And there's a story attached.
In 1999 Val Lakeman, secretary of the Australian War Brides Association, invited members to write their personal stories, which the association would put together and publish, as received, for distribution among relatives and supporters. The "girls" (they're always that) did as they were bid, and a modest (in literary terms) but highly readable book, Overseas War Brides' Memoirs, was self-published the following year.
A story in the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Weekend caught the eye of a sharp literary agent, Selwa Anthony, which led to the book being republished in 2001 by Simon and Schuster. A promise to "the girls" that "not a sentence or word be changed" was observed, the ...
- We came from over the sea: British war brides in Newfoundland.
- Magazine article from: Ethnologies January 1, 2002 700+ words
...We come from over the Sea: British War Brides in Newfoundland and The Women of Fogo...was created specifically by the war brides of Newfoundland and Labrador to be part...were to be about their experiences as war brides. Their experiences were in the context...
- War brides recall their bittersweet journeys: Tribune photo by Milbert O. Brown.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) September 8, 2007 700+ words
...at sea with hundreds of other European war brides, losing 10 pounds during the journey...among the other passengers, all of them war brides like herself. "My mother was brokenhearted...memories. As members of the World War II War Brides Association, they carry with them stories...
- SEVERAL INTERNET SITES HELP TRACK WAR BRIDES.(Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) March 4, 2000 700+ words
...Canadian Armed Forces. Most of those young war brides are now in their 80s and 90s and various...to be recorded. ``Our shipload of war brides - only the second to head for the United...WarBrides.html. Also at this site is a war brides survey and a list of books on the subject...
- War brides: More than memories came back from conflict.
- Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) June 20, 2005 700+ words
...some cases, wives. There have been war brides since there have been wars. But never...Barbara Smith Scibetta, two daughters of war brides who researched the topic, estimated...Scibetta, who wrote the 1988 book "War Brides of World War II," found foreign brides...
- PEACE UNQUIET WAR BRIDES FOUND SURPRISING UNHAPPINESS IN YEARS AFTER WORLD...
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Meadow, James B. September 7, 2001 700+ words
...Between 1942 and 1952 an estimated 1 million war brides came to live in the United States. They came...and sorrows. In 1988, the daughters of two war brides founded the World War II War Brides Association, which is holding its annual reunion...
- GI war brides of '40s see their Britain again
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times September 28, 1986 700+ words
...UPI) A contingent of the 70,000 GI war brides who 40 years ago sailed to the United...taken it all in yet." The reunion drew war brides from 26 states. For Brenda and Bill...from her GI sailor, wrote a book about war brides entitled Sentimental Journey. "We were...
- War brides won over again: Reunion celebrates victory of love.(Metropolitan...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Montgomery, Christine November 5, 1997 700+ words
...dates. Fraternization rules were soon forgotten. At the War Brides of World War II reunion last weekend at the Best Western Arlington...servicemen, said Connie McGrath, the outgoing president of the war-brides group. "Although we come from other countries, we still...
- War brides: The Army doesn't always know what's best.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service October 8, 2003 700+ words
...their battalion commander and sergeant major _ needs to get over it. War brides are a feature of almost every conflict. The longer U.S. forces stay in Iraq, the more war brides will return to this country. And the two soldiers _ Brett Dagen...
