Brass Buttons and Silver Horseshoes: Stories from Canada's British War Brides

by Linda Granfield

Book Overview

Canada's war brides were the young women who met, fell in love with, and married Canadian servicemen in Europe in World War II. Forty-eight thousand from Britain, with 22,000 children, followed their husbands to Canada during and just after the war. Some of them were barely teenagers when the war began, but they grew up quickly in a world of blackouts and rationing and bombing raids, when loved ones were absent and the future uncertain. Love grew...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771035357
• ISBN13: 9780771035357
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.3" x 6.3"