A War Bride S Story

Author : Melynda Jarratt
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770703889

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War Brides by Melynda Jarratt Pdf

For thousands of young British girls, the influx of Canadian soldiers conscripted to Britain during the Second World War meant throngs of handsome young men. The result was over 48,000 marriages to Canadian soldiers alone, and a mass emigration of British women to North America and around the world in the 1940’s. For many brides, the decision to leave their family and home to move to a country thousands of miles away with a man they hardly knew brought forth ensuing happiness. For others, the outcome was much different, and the darker side of the story reveals the infidelity, domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism and divorce that many lived through. War Brides draws on original archival documents, personal correspondence, and key first hand accounts to tell the amazing story of the War Brides in their own words-and shows the love, passion, tragedy and spirit of adventure of thousand of British women.

Author : Helen Bryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0750529520

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War Brides by Helen Bryan Pdf

In 1939 the lives of five women are about to collide in the sleepy little village of Crowmarsh Priors.Evangeline has eloped from New Orleans with a naval captain, Alice is resigned to life as the parish spinster, Elsie is evacuated from the East End to be a maid for Lady Marchmont, Tanni has fled from Vienna with her newborn son, and high-spirited Frances is to see out the war with her godmother. Together these five women face hardship, passion and danger, and form a bond that sees them through their darkest hours, and lasts for the rest of their lives.

Author : Cynthia Faryon
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781552778067

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A War Bride's Story by Cynthia Faryon Pdf

Gwendoline Cramer was one of the 48,000 war brides transported to Canada by the Canadian government between 1942 and 1947. Many of them were escorted across the water and handed over to their husbands with nothing more than a handsake and a cookbook. Following her heart to rural Saskatchewan, Gwen felt like a fish out of water. She couldn't milk a cow or cook with a wood stove. And then she had the in-laws to contend with...

Author : Miki Ward Crawford,Katie Kaori Hayashi,Shizuko Suenaga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313362026

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Japanese War Brides in America by Miki Ward Crawford,Katie Kaori Hayashi,Shizuko Suenaga Pdf

Following the end of World War II, 500,000 American troops occupied every prefecture of Japan and interracial marriages occurred. The sudden influx of 50,000 Japanese war brides during 1946-1965 created social tension in the United States, while opening up one of the country's largest cross-cultural integrations. This book reveals the stories of 19 Japanese war brides whose assimilation into American culture forever influenced future generations, depicting love, strength, and perseverance in the face of incredible odds. The Japanese war brides hold a unique place in American history and have been called ambassadors to the United States. For the first time in English these women share their triumphs, sorrows, successes, and identity in a time when their own future was tainted by social segregation. This oral history focuses mainly on women's lives in the period following World War II and the occupation of Japan. It illuminates the cultural expectations, the situations brought about by the war, and effects of the occupation, and also include quotes from various war brides regarding this time. Chapter interviews are set up in chronological fashion and laid out in the following format: introduction of the war bride, how she met her husband, her initial travels to America, and life thereafter. Where needed, explanations, translations, and background history with references are provided.

Author : Barbara Ladouceur,Phyllis Spence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037497743

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Blackouts to Bright Lights by Barbara Ladouceur,Phyllis Spence Pdf

These Canadian war bride stories recount one of the great untold epics of World War II. Approximately 48,000 British and European women married Canadian servicemen during the war and made the adventurous crossing from "blackouts to bright lights." In time for the 50th anniversary of the end of war, Barbara Ladouceur and Phyllis Spence interviewed over thirty war brides and recorded their individual stories.

Author : Keiko Tamura
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781921862526

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Michi's Memories by Keiko Tamura Pdf

This book tells the story of Michi, one of 650 Japanese war brides who arrived in Australia in the early 1950s. The women met Australian servicemen in post-war Japan and decided to migrate to Australia as wives and fiancées to start a new life. In 1953, when Michi reached Sydney Harbour by boat with her two Japanese-born children, she knew only one person in Australia: her husband. She did not know any English so she quickly learned her first English phrase, "I like Australia", in the car on the way from the harbour to meet her Australian family. In the last fifty years, she brought up seven children while the family moved from one part of Australia to another. Now, in her eighties, she leads a peaceful life in Adelaide, but remains active in many ways. Her voice is full of life and she looks and sounds much younger than her age.

Author : Elfrieda Berthiaume Shukert,Barbara Smith Scibetta
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081849627

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War Brides of World War II by Elfrieda Berthiaume Shukert,Barbara Smith Scibetta Pdf

Author : Lois Battle
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101603659

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War Brides by Lois Battle Pdf

A vibrant novel set in postwar America from the New York Times bestselling author of The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary and Sewing Circle World War II is over, but for three young Australian women who meet on their way to new lives and new husbands in America, the adventure is just beginning. Sheila, Dawn, and Gaynor will need to reacquaint themselves with the military men they swore to love when peace seemed like a lifetime away. But the world that awaits them is filled with new challenges, and each woman will be forced to summon courage and strength she never knew she had. Brilliantly capturing an era that continues to enthrall, War Brides will be embraced by fans of historical fiction and the many readers who are rediscovering Lois Battle and her timeless brand of storytelling.

Author : Duncan Barrett,Nuala Calvi
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062328050

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GI Brides by Duncan Barrett,Nuala Calvi Pdf

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 : Joyce Hibbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001139073

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The War Brides by Joyce Hibbert Pdf

Author : Judy Kozar
Publisher : GeneralStore PublishingHouse
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1897113692

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Canada's War Grooms and the Girls who Stole Their Hearts by Judy Kozar Pdf

Author : Johanna O. Zulueta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000553055

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Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration by Johanna O. Zulueta Pdf

The phenomenon of “war brides” from Japan moving to the West has been quite widely discussed, but this book tells the stories of women whose lives followed a rather different path after they married foreign occupiers. During Okinawa’s Occupation by the Allies from 1945 to 1972, many Okinawan women met and had relationships with non-Western men who were stationed in Okinawa as soldiers and base employees. Most of these men were from the Philippines. Zulueta explores the journeys of these women to their husbands’ homeland, their acculturation to their adopted land, and their return to their native Okinawa in their late adult years. Utilizing a life-course approach, she examines how these women crafted their own identities as first-generation migrants or “Issei” in both the country of migration and their natal homeland, their re-integration to Okinawan society, and the role of religion in this regard, as well as their thoughts on end-of-life as returnees. This book will be of interest to scholars looking at gender and migration, cross-cultural marriages, ageing and migration, as well as those interested in East Asia, particularly Japan/Okinawa.

Author : Melynda Jarratt
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770706033

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War Brides by Melynda Jarratt Pdf

For thousands of young British girls, the influx of Canadian soldiers conscripted to Britain during the Second World War meant throngs of handsome young men. The result was over 48,000 marriages to Canadian soldiers alone, and a mass emigration of British women to North America and around the world in the 1940’s. For many brides, the decision to leave their family and home to move to a country thousands of miles away with a man they hardly knew brought forth ensuing happiness. For others, the outcome was much different, and the darker side of the story reveals the infidelity, domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism and divorce that many lived through. War Brides draws on original archival documents, personal correspondence, and key first hand accounts to tell the amazing story of the War Brides in their own words-and shows the love, passion, tragedy and spirit of adventure of thousand of British women.

Author : Michael J. Forrester
Publisher : American Classic Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Japanese Americans
ISBN : 9781589822252

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Tsuchino by Michael J. Forrester Pdf

"In a stunning tribute to his wife of 45 years, Michael Forrester's Tsuchino, My Japanese War Bride is a compelling narrative that gives readers history and insight into the little-known and understudied story of Japanese war brides in America. Before leaving to serve in the US military in the occupation of Japan, New York-born Irish Catholic Forrester was cautioned by his grandmother to not return home with a Japanese bride! Fortunately, Michael Forrester did not heed the warning and in 1958, he married Tsuchino Matsuo ? a strong-willed and determined woman who confounds any stereotypes readers might have had about Japanese war brides. Michael and Tsuchino's story of love transcends cultural and language barriers at a time in American history when marriage between two different races was a rare occurrence." ? Regina F. Lark, Ph.D., UCLA Center for the Study of Women and Women's Studies Programs

Author : Barbara Ladouceur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1553802047

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Blackouts to Bright Lights by Barbara Ladouceur Pdf