Dear Bill: Letters to Dad 1939 - 1945 The War Years Wendy Hamilton

Dear Bill: Letters to Dad 1939 - 1945 The War Years

Author: Wendy Hamilton
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Book Title
Dear Bill: Letters to Dad 1939 - 1945 The War Years
Author
Wendy Hamilton
ISBN
9781039117662
Dear Bill is, in many ways, a time capsule that illuminates and brilliantly colours the years of 1939-1945 from a uniquely Canadian pioneer perspective. Bill Treadgold was a young man from Kelowna, BC commissioned into the RCAF; while his war efforts were confined to air forces bases in Western Canada, he was separated from his family and friends and maintained contact through letter writing. The letters he received in response to his own, form the rich memoir Dear Bill. While Dear Bill is a memoir from the war years, and brings to life Allied operations in Europe through letters from buddies who were commissioned overseas, it is, arguably, more so a memoir of battles on the home front, and of the triumphs of an incredibly resilient family. by: Shelagh Ryan McNee who discovered from reading these letters that her grandfather-in-law was Bill's commanding officer at Pat Bay, B.C.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Wendy Hamilton, Catherine PavlikPublisher: FriesenPressPublished: 11/05/2021ISBN: 9781039117662Pages: 372Weight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d
Dear Bill is, in many ways, a time capsule that illuminates and brilliantly colours the years of 1939-1945 from a uniquely Canadian pioneer perspective. Bill Treadgold was a young man from Kelowna, BC commissioned into the RCAF; while his war efforts were confined to air forces bases in Western Canada, he was separated from his family and friends and maintained contact through letter writing. The letters he received in response to his own, form the rich memoir Dear Bill.

While Dear Bill is a memoir from the war years, and brings to life Allied operations in Europe through letters from buddies who were commissioned overseas, it is, arguably, more so a memoir of battles on the home front, and of the triumphs of an incredibly resilient family.

by: Shelagh Ryan McNee who discovered from reading these letters that her grandfather-in-law was Bill's commanding officer at Pat Bay, B.C.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Wendy Hamilton, Catherine Pavlik
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 11/05/2021
ISBN: 9781039117662
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d
Dear Bill is, in many ways, a time capsule that illuminates and brilliantly colours the years of 1939-1945 from a uniquely Canadian pioneer perspective. Bill Treadgold was a young man from Kelowna, BC commissioned into the RCAF; while his war efforts were confined to air forces bases in Western Canada, he was separated from his family and friends and maintained contact through letter writing. The letters he received in response to his own, form the rich memoir Dear Bill.

While Dear Bill is a memoir from the war years, and brings to life Allied operations in Europe through letters from buddies who were commissioned overseas, it is, arguably, more so a memoir of battles on the home front, and of the triumphs of an incredibly resilient family.

by: Shelagh Ryan McNee who discovered from reading these letters that her grandfather-in-law was Bill's commanding officer at Pat Bay, B.C.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Wendy Hamilton, Catherine Pavlik
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 11/05/2021
ISBN: 9781039117662
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d