GI Brides: The wartime girls who crossed the Atlantic for love. Duncan Barrett
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      In memory of Mary McIntosh

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Chapter 1: Sylvia

       Chapter 2: Rae

       Chapter 3: Margaret

       Chapter 4: Gwendolyn

       Chapter 5: Sylvia

       Chapter 6: Rae

       Chapter 7: Margaret

       Chapter 8: Gwendolyn

       Chapter 9: Sylvia

       Chapter 10: Margaret

       Chapter 11: Rae

       Chapter 12: Sylvia

       Chapter 13: Gwendolyn

       Chapter 14: Margaret

       Chapter 15: Sylvia

       Chapter 16: Gwendolyn

       Chapter 17: Rae

       Chapter 18: Sylvia

       Chapter 19: Margaret

       Chapter 20: Gwendolyn

       Chapter 21: Sylvia

       Chapter 22: Rae

       Chapter 23: Margaret

       Chapter 24: Gwendolyn

       Chapter 25: Sylvia

       Chapter 26: Rae

       Chapter 27: Margaret

       Chapter 28: Gwendolyn

       Chapter 29: Sylvia

       Chapter 30: Rae

       Chapter 31: Gwendolyn

       Epilogue

       Acknowledgements

       June’s Story

       The Sugar Girls

       What next?

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       Sylvia

      As the 8.10 to Charing Cross pulled out of Woolwich, Sylvia Bradley could barely contain her excitement. At fifteen and a half, she had only just left school, and was thrilled to be joining the crowds of glamorous women who took the train ‘Up West’ every morning to work in the capital’s grand hotels and shops. Her blonde hair had been perfectly curled for the occasion, and her brand-new lipstick applied.

      If Sylvia’s mother had got her way, she wouldn’t have been there at all. A talented seamstress, Mrs Bradley had been a furrier before the war, working from home sewing the false eyes and noses on fox furs for a West End shop. Applying the wartime philosophy of make-do-and-mend, these days she prided herself on keeping her family well turned out, despite clothes rationing, by finding old garments in second-hand shops and working miracles on them so that they looked brand new. She had easily СКАЧАТЬ