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'The big day had arrived and after only three weeks' intensive training Susan passed out and mustered on the parade ground--a fully fledged Wren in the much sought after Communications branch of the service, proudly boasting the Naval flags on the badge on the sleeve of her jacket. There was a gabble of excited noise as the young Wrens, sounding like their feathered namesakes, jostled and pushed each other around the drafting board...' The author tells it like it was, the trials, the tribulations, and the fun--her detailed and humorous account of her experiences as Wren in World War II is both historically informative and delightfully entertaining.
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Louisa Mowatt Mackenzie of Edinburgh is wife of Tom Jenkins and mother to Glyn and Llewellyn.Material in New Fiction, Arrival Press, National Library of Poetry, Maryland, U S A. Pot-Pourri of Poems launched in St. James complex. Ghost writer of brother?s war memoirs launched in Canada. Her best known published book is The Tree That Grew in St James Square, launched in 2004.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Why bother?,
By Pamela H. Turbett "Pam Turbett: ex-VS Wren P... (Buckfastleigh, Devon, England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Bellbottoms and Blackouts: Memories of a Wren (Paperback)
"BellBottoms and Blackouts" by Louisa M. Jenkins.
I was a 1943-1945 Wren "bunting-tosser" (a visual signaller) myself and I found this book both dull and often factually incorrect. The photographs are mainly of the author, Louisa Jenkins - so is this actually Louisa's story written in the third person or is she writing about the war experience of someone else entirely, called Susan Mackenzie? it would be helpful to know. The Author's Copyright is dated 2004 so it could stem from "Granny's" taped memoirs recently recorded. Surely she would have known that Dame Vera Laughton-Matthews was the Director of the W.R.N.S. and not just "a visiting VIP"! And did "Tchaikousky" really write the "Apathetique" symphony? This book badly needed a good editor who would have cut and simplified the pompous language, and muddled narrative and checked the facts. To see how it should have been done, read Stephanie Batstone's book "Wren's Eye View". Same subject, same time, but exciting, accurate in every detail and REAL!
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