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War Brides: The Stories of the women who left everything behind to follow the men they loved by Melynda Jarratt
War Brides: The Stories of the women who left everything behind to follow the men they loved by Melynda Jarratt
226 pages Contains more than one hundred original b&w archival photographs, documents and correspondence from private collections and the National Archives of Canada.
Voices of the Left Behind
Canada's War Grooms and the Girls who stole their hearts
War Grooms by Judy Kozar
Our Mornings May Never Be
Our Mornings May Never Be
The Last of the War Brides
Book of Kells: Growing up in an Ego Void
Book of Kells: Growing up in an Ego Void
Brass Buttons and Silver Horseshoes
Brass Buttons and Silver Horseshoes
Nurses in Battledress, The World War II story of a member of the Q. A. Reserves
Nurses in Battledress, The World War II story of a member of the Q. A. Reserves

New Release! From Tempus Publishing in Britain

War Brides : The Stories of the Women Who Left Everything Behind to Follow the Men They Loved

by Melynda Jarratt
ISBN-10: 0752443097
ISBN-13: 978-0752443096
Hard Cover, 288 pages, 16 pages of photographs
Nine chapters, indexed, bibliography and recommended reading.
In BRITAIN Available through Tempus Publishing (Now The History Press)
ON-LINE Order NOW! on line through Amazon.com

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Voices of the Left Behind: Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War Two
Olga and Lloyd Rains and Melynda Jarratt
Originally Published by Project Roots 2004
Translated into Dutch and reprinted by PICA
English version reprinted by Dundurn Press

NEW! 2007
Canada’s War Grooms and the Girls who Stole their Hearts

Judy Kozar
ISBN #1897113692
ISBN #9781897113691
Printed by General Store Pulblishing House


A Book of Kells: Growing up in an Ego Void
By Margaret Kell Virany
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Imprint Books 2002
* ISBN: 1591093724

Blackouts to Bright Lights: Canadian War Bride Stories
Editors Barbara Ladouceur and Phyllis Spence
Printed by Ronsdale Press, Vancouver
1995 - 299 pages
ISBN 0-921870-33-7

Brass Buttons and Silver Horseshoes
Stories from Canada's British War Brides
By Linda Granfield
Published by McClelland and Stewart Ltd.
2002- 144 pg.
ISBN: 0771035357

From Romance to Reality: Stories of Canadian War Brides
Peggy O'Hara
Published by Highway Book Shop, Cobalt, Ontario
Reprinted 1985 - 312 pages

If Kisses Were Roses: A 50th Anniversary Tribute to War Brides
Helen Hall Shewchuk
Printed by Journal Printers, Sudbury, Ontario
1995 - 231 pages
ISBN 0-9680907-0-2

Nurses in Battledress, The World War II story of a member of the Q. A. Reserves
Gwladys M Rees Aikens
160 pp., paperback
ISBN 1-55109-313-8

OUR MORNINGS MAY NEVER BE
Memoirs by a WAAF Sergeant...and Beyond

By Joan MacDonald
ISBN#1-894263-73-1
ISBN#9781894263733
General Store Publishing


Our Sentimental Journey
Saskatchewan War Brides
2005
Available from the Saskatchewan War Brides Association
(Read what was said in the Saskatchewan Legislature on November 10, 2005 about this book!)


Promise You'll Take Care of My Daughter
Ben Wicks with a foreward by Pierre Berton
Printed by Stoddart Publishing, Toronto, Ontario
1992 - 229 pages
ISBN 0-7737-2570-9 (bound) 0-7737-5565-9 (paperback)

The Last of the War Brides
by Jacqueline O'Neill Dahm

267 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover);
catalogue #04-2532;
ISBN 1-4120-4724-2
Available through Trafford Publishing

The War Brides
Edited by Joyce Hibbert with an introduction by Mavis Gallant
First published by PMA Books, reprinted by Signet
1980 - 138 pages

The War Brides of New Brunswick
Melynda Jarratt, Masters Thesis
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB
1995 - 94 pages and appendices

We Became Canadians
Olga Rains, illustrations by Lloyd Rains
Overnight Copy Service, Hyde Park, Ontario
1984 - 148 pages

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