Mother Dear, Dearest Mater, Mum: Wartime letters from James Fulton Yeomans to Ada Pearle Yeomans, 1942-1945

A First-Hand Chronicle of World War II at Sea, Documented in 130 Unfiltered Letters.

Between 1942 and 1945, Royal Australian Navy Writer Jim Yeomans maintained a constant correspondence with his mother, Ada, from his post at Flinders Naval Depot and aboard the cruiser HMAS Shropshire during the Pacific War. This collection presents their letters in full, offering an authentic, ground-level account of the war as it happened.

Mother Dear, Dearest Mater, Mum is a detailed social history captured...