Good-bye, Piccadilly

British war brides in America

by Jenel Virden

1996 177 pages eng

As much of the world tried to return to normal living and working patterns after World War II, some 70,000 British women chose to be uprooted from the homeland they knew and loved. These were British war brides, a uniformly young group who by marrying American servicemen became part of the largest s…