GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed The Atlantic For Love - Plot & Excerpts
It was four months since her husband had been kicked out of the American Army for defrauding the Red Cross and failing to pay his debts, and he had been repatriated shortly afterwards. In his letters to her since then he had repeated his promise that if she followed him to America they could start afresh and he would never touch another drop of alcohol. His apologies seemed heartfelt and sincere, and Margaret hoped that once he was away from the stress and strain of the war things would be easier. As the wife of an officer, Margaret had been entitled to transportation by the Army, which had requisitioned Cunard’s great ocean liners to carry troops from America to the theatres of operation and had spaces onboard on their return journeys. But the voyage was top secret – the passengers’ bags were marked with a code number rather than their destination, and the brides had been instructed to tell no one at home when they were travelling, for fear of a U-boat attack. On some voyages, brides found the secrecy meant that even the crew didn’t know who they were and assumed they must be prostitutes brought onboard for the officers.
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