Publisher's Synopsis
Young, restless and stuck in a dead-end job, Joan Rice longed for adventure. As WWII broke out, she enlisted in the Women's Auxiliary Air force, hoping for the chance to see the world and 'swank around in uniform'. She started on a London airbase, moving ultimately to postings in Egypt and Palestine. Her diary is the story of daily war life, and a woman growing up amid the social whirl of service society. From the English countryside to the Egyptian desert, she wrote about the young men and women caught up alongside her in the greatest war in history.
