Wave Me Goodbye: Stories of the Second World War

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ISBN 10: 0860688372 / ISBN 13: 9780860688372

Published by -, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wave Me Goodbye: Stories of the Second World War
• Publisher: -
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0860688372
• ISBN 13: 9780860688372
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye' went the jaunty wartime song, and that was what the brave-faced women did as they bid their men farewell. This collection of short stories, written by women when war was a way of life, includes some of the finest British writers of that Rosamond Lehmann, Elizabeth Bowen, Doris Lessing, Rose Macaulay, Stevie Smith, and Elizabeth Taylor. War has traditionally been seen as a masculine occupation, but these stories show how women were, in a sense, equal participants. They reveal hardship, isolation, and deprivation. By turn comical, stoical, compassionate, angry, and subversive, these intensely individual voices bring a human dimension to the momentous events that reverberated around them, and each opens a window on to a hidden landscape of war.

From the Publisher

ŒWish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbyeš went the jaunty wartime song, and that was what the brave-faced women did as they bid their men farewell. This collection of short stories, written by women when war was a way of life, includes some of the finest British writers of that generation: Rosamond Lehmann, Elizabeth Bowen, Doris Lessing, Rose Macaulay, Stevie Smith, and Elizabeth Taylor. War has traditionally been seen as a masculine occupation, but these stories show how women were, in a sense, equal participants. They reveal hardship, isolation, and deprivation. By turn comical, stoical, compassionate, angry, and subversive, these intensely individual voices bring a human dimension to the momentous events that reverberated around them, and each opens a window on to a hidden landscape of war.