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Binding: PaperbackEAN: 9780007228218 ISBN: 000722821X Label: HarperPerennial Manufacturer: HarperPerennial Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: July 02, 2007 Publisher: HarperPerennial Studio: HarperPerennial Related Items:
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 Rating:  - read and learnI really liked this book. It's the published diaries of a girl who was 19 when the Second World War began. It must be fairly unique of its type because apparently members of the forces weren't supposed to record their experiences during war time so the author kept her diary secretly and at the end of the war no one was interested in it because everyone was fed up with hearing about the war. Now it is a piece of social history and fascinating to read. The book is pleasingly unaffected and informative, even down to what they ate (not very healthily by today's standards). I read the last part of the book when I was travelling to work on the train and it really struck me how, despite the war and the difficulties of travel at the time, the author travelled widely using every conceivable method of transport available to her. Now, with all we have at our disposal we constrain ourselves by train timetables and whether we have the right model of car. The book also illustrates the incredible social life people made for themselves, and the camaraderie of the war, despite the awful things which were taking place in the wider world. There are quite a lot of footnotes explaining forces expressions and fashions of the time. I was a bit taken aback by the fact that I understood them all without needing to use the footnotes but I'm consoling myself that it was probably because my dad was in RAF during the war and he used a lot of them throughout his life. That's my excuse anyway. Rating:  - Excellent book This is a fantastic set of diaries of a WAAF during WW2. Although it does describe the goings-on of the war, it also gives us an insight into the young woman's daily life- her worries, hopes, joys, and loves. A real treasure  Try searching the Internet for "Sand In My Shoes: Coming of Age in the Second World War: A WAAF's Diary" or Ebay for "Sand In My Shoes: Coming of Age in the Second World War: A WAAF's Diary". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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