WORLD WAR 2 ARMY NAVY AIR FORCE CANADIAN HOME FRONT

by Mary Peate  ===== Published by Optimum Publishing International , Montreal , Toronto , 1988 =====

This book is a Hardcover in fine condition with 202 pages, and vintage black and white photographs & illustrations.

The Dust Jacket is in fine condition.

FROM THE COVER ===Say, when you get on again as a profes­sor at some college, and I'm back running my cabs in St. Louis,

send me up a (girl) in a Sloppy Joe sweater." == Humphrey Bogart ==Army buddy in WW II film, DeadReckoning

1989 is the 50th anniversery year of the beginning of World War Two.  

Anniversary marks a renewal of interest in the war years, he most significant in modern history.

Girl In A Sloppy Joe Sweater is a lighthearted but true-to-life account of Canadian home front living during the war years.

When teenaged boys put on uniforms  and sailed, flew, and marched off to fight in the Second World War,

the teenaged girls they left behind them were in uniform too: a Sloppy Joe sweater, a string of pearls, skirt, bobbysox, and saddleshoes.

Meet Mary, one of those girls in a Sloppy Joe sweater; her best friend Cathy, and their friends; and follow their fortunes through these six significant years in history that paralleled six of the most formative years of their lives.

Through Mary you will learn what they were like, these girls in their Sloppy Joe sweaters :

how they passed their time as they waited for the boys to come home ; their code of manners and mores;

what they talked about at their " hen parties " ; the music and radio programs they listened to ;

the movies they watched; the books and magazines they read; their fashion fads; their humour; and their contribution to the "war effort".

Written with warmth, humour, and nostal­gia, this non-fiction book reads almost like fic­tion.

Girl In A Sloppy Joe Sweater will prove appealingly evocative to all who lived through these years,

service men and service wives, those at home or those away.

Younger read­ers will gain a glimpse into a fascinating if chilling world that will never be again.

Accented by newspaper clippings of the time, the reader gets a chronological review of home and war front news.

These vignettes to history reflect the reality of life and death of never to be forgotten days and when juxtaposed with

the author's highly entertaining text, the whole forms a record of the times as none other has.

Mary Peate's book is a fitting memorial to the fiftieth anniversary of the out-break of WWII and a treat for all ages.

CONTENTS INCLUDE ==

CHAPTER TITLE

PROLOGUE   

C' EST LA GUERRE

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT        

THE BRITISH (KIDS) ARE COMING         

SUB DEBS AND JUNIOR MISSES  

MISS DELACEY IS EXPECTING    

HIGHER LEARNING            

PUBLIC SERVICE ADS

GOOD CATHOLIC BOYS    

EAST OF MORGAN'S          

DECISION     

TOUTE LA GANG AT THE MOVIES          

ADIEU TO '42           

MAGAZINES WE BELIEVED IN     

THE WAR EFFORT (JUNIOR GRADE)

THE GINGERBREAD GIRL

ORDEAL       

WORDS         

WOMEN'S WORK    

ALGAE IN THE STENOGRAPHIC POOL   

HEN PARTY

FILLING TIME          

WAR (MOVIE) LOVERS      

A LOVELY WAY TO SPEND AN EVENING

MANNERS AND MORES 1944

MR. WHATCHACALLUM WHATCHA DOIN'

TONIGHT?    

THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER

FASHION FADDISTS

WE WON! WE WON!

"EACH MAN SAID A `MY GOD'    

RECONVERSION     

EPILOGUE