Customer Reviews
read and learn - By: Dreamer, 02 Oct 2007 
I really liked this book.
It's the published diaries of a girl who was 19 when the Second World War began. It must be fairly unique of its type because apparently members of the forces weren't supposed to record their experiences during war time so the author kept her diary secretly & at the end of the war no one was interestedin it because everyone was fed up with hearing about the war. Now it is a piece of social history & fascinating to read.
The book is pleasingly unaffected & informative, even down to what they ate (not very healthily by today's standards).
I read the last part of the book when I was travelling to work on the train & it really struck me how, despite the war & the difficulties of travel at the time, the author travelled widely using every conceivable method of transport available to her. Now, with all we have at our disposal we constrain ourselves by train timetables & whether we have the right model of car.
The book also illustrates the incredible social life people made for themselves, & the camaraderie of the war, despite the awful things which were taking placein the wider world.
There are quite a lot of footnotes explaining forces expressions & fashions of the time. I was a bit taken aback by the fact that I understood them all without needing to use the footnotes but I'm consoling myself that it was probably because my dad wasin RAF during the war & he used a lot of them throughout his life. That's my excuse anyway.
Excellent book - By: stardustinmyeyesofblue, 23 Aug 2006 
This is a fantastic set of diaries of a WAAF during WW2. Although it does describe the goings-on of the war, it also gives us an insight into the young woman's daily life- her worries, hopes, joys, & loves.
A real treasure
