"By your leave, sir" : the story of a WAVE

Date:

1943.

Author:

Jacobs, Helen Hull, 1908-1997.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH J165 B9 1943 LOCAL

Publisher:

Dodd, Mead

Abstract:

Becky McLeod, an American, experiences several London air raids during World War II and decides to become a Wave so she can perform a job close to the war and allow the men of the Navy to go to sea and to the battle fronts.

Physical Description:

ix, 260 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:

Library's copy has written text from dust jacket. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

Follett edition (1958?), c 1945, 4th printing in publisher's library binding; originally published by Houghton Mifflin; the 'They Came From' series

Subjects:

Women Conduct of life Fiction and Women Conduct of life

Genres/Forms:

Biographical fiction, Fiction, Biographical fiction. gsafd, and Biographical fiction. lcgft

Corporate Names:

United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve Fiction and United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve