The GI bride
Simantel, Iris Jones, 1938-2013
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The remarkable memoir of GI bride Iris Jones Simantel. Iris had escaped the Blitz but now lived in crippling poverty after the war - until a chance meeting changed her life. Aged just sixteen, she fell in love and married US soldier Bob Irvine, and soon set sail for a new life in America. It was the 1950s, the land of hope, dreams and Doris Day movies. But Iris ended up in a cramped Chicago bungalow, shared with Bob's parents, with a baby on the way and a husband turning daily into a stranger.
Main title:
The GI bride / Iris Jones Simantel.
Author:
Simantel, Iris Jones, 1938-, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2013.
Collation:
285 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781405912648 (pbk)1405912642
Dewey class:
973.9'2'092973.92973.92092920
Local class:
B SIM
Language:
English
Subject:
Jones Simantel, Iris, 1938-Jones Simantel, Iris, 1938- -- MarriageIrvine, BobWar brides -- Great Britain -- BiographyBritish -- United StatesWomen immigrants -- United States -- BiographyImmigrants -- United States -- BiographyBiographyBiographyBiographyUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
BRN:
634642
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