Entertaining Eric
Subtitle: a wartime love story
By: Maureen Wells
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Magna
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780750528887
Subjects: Correspondence; English Personal narratives; World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924; Great Britain. Royal Navy. Women's Royal Naval Service; World War, 1939-1945; Great Britain; Large type books
Description: In 1941, 20-year-old Maureen Bolster began writing to her boyfriend Eric Wells, stationed in the Middle East. Filled with warmth and humour, this charming collection of Maureen's letters describes her life working for the war effort back home. Uproarious incidents occur when she encounters lecherous GIs, immoral lodgers and irascible landladies in her work first as a billeting officer; then as a Wren courier, delivering secret documents by trains, boats and planes; and finally as a Wren stoker. All the while, her thoughts are with her sweetheart Eric as he fights for his country thousands of miles away.
Notes: Originally published: London: Imperial War Museum, 1988.