The Big Test: The Story of the Girl Guides in the World War

Dust jacket copy: This record of steady effort, devotion to duty and unassuming heroism makes fine reading. You will admire the ingenuity of the Guide who cleaned the sergeant's boots and the one who taught skating in order to earn money to buy air ambulances for Guide Gift Week. You will smile at the enthusiasm of the Guide who, in spite of time-bombs ticking away wanted to "pop in" for her waste paper. And perhaps you will envy the calm courage and skilled resourcefulness of Ranger Joyce, who saved the life of a soldier. But there is much more than that in this book that every Guide will read with pride, and those not of the Guide world may well feel happier about the future through this witness to the courage and resilience of youth who are given such traditions to follow.