All the Brave Promises by Mary Lee Settle

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All the Brave Promises by Mary Lee Settle

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Part of Mary Lee Settle Collection series

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All the Brave Promises by Mary Lee Settle

Mary Lee Settle volunteered for service in the women's auxiliary arm of the Royal Air Force in 1942. She was a lone young American in a barracks full of British women. All the Brave Promises is her recollection and evocation of those war years. From her ignominious treatment at the hands of rowdy barracks mates to her friendship with young RAF pilots and her tracking of Allied planes through night fog and blackout, Settle successfully re-creates the heightened sense of danger that pervaded wartime Britain, the immobilizing fear she dealt with on a daily basis, the heady enthusiasm that sometimes broke the tense atmosphere, and the unbridgeable gulf that divided officers from the enlisted ranks. With a mixture of passionate honesty and earthy humor, this masterful, award-winning writer crafts a memoir that is as much a tribute to the generation that fought World War I as a moving account of one woman's extraordinary wartime experience.

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ISBN 13 9781570031007
ISBN 10 1570031002
Title All the Brave Promises
Author Mary Lee Settle
Series Mary Lee Settle Collection
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of South Carolina Press
Year published 1995-12-31
Number of pages 176
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.