Title: Wartime Letters Home by Lois MacDonald Cooper (Hardcover with Dust Jacket, 2005 First Edition, Borealis Press)

Condition: Near Mint / Like New. Pages are crisp, clean, and tightly bound. Dust jacket shows virtually no shelf wear and is in excellent, collectible condition.

Item Description:

Up for sale is an incredibly scarce, collector-grade hardcover copy of Wartime Letters Home by Lois MacDonald Cooper. Published by the niche Canadian publisher Borealis Press in 2005, the hardcover edition of this book is exceptionally hard to find on the secondary market.

This compelling 349-page memoir provides a first-person, front-row seat to WWII history through the letters written by a 23-year-old Ottawa resident to her parents. Serving as a Lieutenant in the Canadian Red Cross Corps Overseas Detachment, her letters detail daily life, intense struggles, and historic events from her posting at the Basingstoke Neurological & Plastic Surgery Hospital in England, and her subsequent deployment forward into France and Belgium (including the Battle of the Scheldt Estuary). Includes maps, 42 black-and-white photos, and an 8-page color photo section.

EXCLUSIVE UNIQUE PROVENANCE INCLUDED:

This specific copy features two fascinating pieces of original historical ephemera tucked inside by a previous collector:

1 Original Newspaper Clipping: A feature from The North Bay Nugget (Nov 17, 2011) titled "A read fit for royalty", detailing how Prince William and Kate Middleton were presented with a copy of this exact book during their 2011 Royal Tour of Canada.

2 Author's Original Obituary: The official printed obituary for Lois Jean Cooper, who passed away in October 2012 at age 93, providing a beautiful closing chapter to her incredible life story.

Perfect for collectors of military history, WWII home-front/overseas nursing, the Canadian Red Cross Corps, or postal/aerogramme history.

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