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PARRY, Joyce Ffoulkes. Joyce’s War: The Second World War Journal of a Queen Alexandra Nurse, edited by Rhiannon Evans. 256p., illus., index. Stroud: History Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780750962308.

Parry spent much of the war on the hospital ships  Otranto and Karapara as well as time on shore in hospitals in Alexandria and Calcutta. This edited diary is full of details of life ashore and afloat, worries about family and friends and social life. A fascinating volume.