Love and War in the WRNS (eBook)

Letters Home 1940-46

Vicky Unwin (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015 | 1. Auflage
420 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-6467-8 (ISBN)

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Sheila Mills's story is a unique perspective of the Second World War. She is a clever, middle-class Norfolk girl with a yen for adventure and joins the WRNS in 1940 to escape the shackles of secretarial work in London, her unhappy childhood and her social-climbing mother. From a first posting in Scotland in 1940, she progresses through the ranks, first to Egypt and later to a vanquished Germany. Extraordinary and fascinating encounters and personalities are seen through the eyes of a young Wren officer: Admiral Ramsay, the Invasion of Sicily and Operation Mincemeat that triggered it, The Flap, the sinking of the Medway, the surrender of the Italian fleet and the Belsen Trials. These observations are peppered with humorous insights into the humdrum preoccupations of a typical Wren - boys, appearance and having fun, while worrying about home and family. This treasure trove of hundreds of letters, along with scrapbooks and memorabilia, some of which are reproduced here, was discovered in bin liners shortly after Sheila died. Her daughter, Vicky, has pieced together a fascinating and unusual record of the Second World War from a woman's perspective.

Vicky Unwin is the only child of Sheila Unwin (née Mills). She writes regular health and travel blogs and serves on the trustee boards of several charities. Her second book, The Boy from Boskovice: A Father's Secret Life (Unbound, 2021), takes up the story of her parents and completes Sheila Mills' extra­ordinary life story. She lives in London with her husband.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2015
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: admiral ramsay • belsen trials • invasion of Sicily • letters home 1940-46 • Second World War • sheila mills • the flap • the sinking of the medway • Women in History • women in history, women's history • women in history, women's history, sheila mills, Women's Royal Naval Service, admiral ramsay, invasion of sicily, the flap, the sinking of the medway, belsen trials, second world war, world war two, world war 2, world war ii, ww2, wwii, letters home 1940-46 • Women's history • Women's Royal Naval Service • World War 2 • World War II • World War Two • ww2 • WWII
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-6467-7 / 0750964677
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-6467-8 / 9780750964678