FRAGMENTS OF WAR: STORIES FROM SURVIVORS OF WWII

This is a first edition of Fragments of War: Stories from Survivors of World War II, gathered together by the Canadian writer Joyce Hibbert.

There are 30 stories, including the young girl from the Ottawa Valley who served as a nurse in North Africa with only a helmet of fresh water a day, the teenage soldier from Fredericton who stole pig swill to survive in a Hong Kong POW camp, the English woman who survived the sinking of the Athenia to become a war-bride, and an Alberta airman who crashed off the icy coast of Greenland. Private photographs from their own albums illustrate the stories, which reflect the world wide aspect of the war from the Indian Ocean to the North Atlantic, from Poland to the Middle East, and the varied activities and duties of these young men and women. Their hardships, adventures, frustrations, fears, joys and romances are chronicled in a poignant and often humorous manner.

267 pages, soft cover. The cover is laminated, and that lamination has pulled away from the spine a little. There is the odd mark here and there. But in excellent condition.

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