Au Revoir My Darling. An Intimate War Correspondence 1940-1945. by Haughton, Heather - 2010

New Holland Publishers Pty. Ltd., 2010 Book in a very good condition. Old bookshop sticker on front cover.

New Holland, Sydney, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Inscribed by Author. family tree, acknowledgements and abbreviations, Second World War Timeline, introduction by author and end notes. The text is illustrated with occasional black-and-white photograph. Photographic endpapers, showing bundles of letters tied. Brown coloured boards with white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper with brown coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. The correspondence of the author's parents during World War II. Ken MacFarlane volunteered for the Australian Army in 1940, leaving behind a wife and two young daughters. For the next five years he and his wife, Eileen, wrote to each other at least weekly, at times daily. They wrote of their daily lives, Eileen evoking what it was like to be in the Australian homefront in the 1940s, while Ken told what it was like to be overseas away from his family. There is an… Read More

New Holland, Australia, 2010. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by Author. Size: 8"-9" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military & Warfare; Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 1741109051. ISBN/EAN: 9781741109054. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 43886. . 9781741109054

Sydney: New Holland, 2010. Hardback small square octavo, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket), illustrated endpapers, minimal edgewear jacket. 224 pp. Poignant letters between husband and wife, separated by the Second World War (WW2). The letters were in an old suitcase that was full of their war correspondence. The letters were inherited by Heather Haughton when her mother died. The best letters are reproduced here. Ken joined the 2/7th Australian General Hospital unit, and served in Syria, Palestine and New Guinea. Eileen spent the war on a poultry farm.