An Exacting Mistress: The Friends Ambulance Unit in WWII, edited by Antony Barlow
Edited by Antony Barlow. Review by John Lampen.
This is a substantial book, well produced, illustrated and indexed. It contains the wartime letters of Ralph Barlow and his wife Joan, the editor’s parents. Ralph was officer in charge of the Middle East Section of the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU), and later its deputy director, travelling 30,000 miles in his duties. Joan was a full-time mother with two small children.
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