cover image Wave Me Goodbye: 2stories of the Second World War

Wave Me Goodbye: 2stories of the Second World War

. Penguin Books, $8.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-14-012284-8

British and American women who were actively engaged in the war effort on the home front, among them Barbara Pym, Rosamond Lehmann and Dorothy Parker, personalize the experience of war in pieces written in and about the decade 1939-1949. ``The stories in this high caliber anthology. . . . poignantly illuminate the `second war' behind the frontlines,'' noted PW. (Feb.) -