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For listeners enchanted by the best sellers The Astronaut Wives Golf club, The Women of Atomic City, and Summer at Tiffany's, an absorbing tale of relationship and resilience - the true story of four English women who crossed the Atlantic for love, coming to America by the end of World Battle II to produce a new life with the American servicemen they wedded. The "friendly invasion" of Britain by more than a million North american G.I.s bewitched a era of young women deprived of male company during the Second World Battle. With their spectacular accents, smart outfits, and aura of Hollywood glamour, the G.I.s easily conquered their hearts, leaving British boys struggling with abroad inexperienced with envy. But also for young girls like Sylvia, Margaret, Gwendolyn, and even the skeptical Rae, American soldiers offered something even more tantalizing than chocolate, nicotine gum, and nylon stockings: An escape option from Blitz-ravaged Britain, an opportunity for a fresh life in affluent, modern America. Through the stories of the four women, G.I. Brides illuminates the activities of warfare brides who found themselves in a overseas culture a large number of miles away from family and friends, with men they barely knew. Some battled with the isolation of life in rural America, or found their soldier less than heroic in civilian life. But most persevered, established to carefully turn their wartime relationship into a lifelong romance, and persuade those back a Hollywood closing of their own was possible.
