Train to Nowhere: One Woman's World War II, Ambulance Driver, Reporter, Liberator - Tapa blanda

Leslie, Anita

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9781448216680: Train to Nowhere: One Woman's World War II, Ambulance Driver, Reporter, Liberator

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ISBN 10: 1448216680 ISBN 13: 9781448216680

Editorial: Bloomsbury Caravel, 2018

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Train to Nowhere is the most gripping piece of war reportage I have ever read: particularly affecting is Anita Leslie's account of the Battle of Colmar, where her descriptions are almost too unbearable to take in. What a writer! Her observations, mixed with dry humour and compassion, place her at the heart of the conflict and somehow apart from it, as a good historian should be. Remarkable. (Joanna Lumley 2017-07-01)

A vivid memoir, beautifully crafted, by a remarkable woman at a unique period in modern history. Her skills of observation are penetrating and make this book a marvellously accessible account of WWII. Unputdownable (Mary S. Lovell The Mitford Girls 2017-06-23)

Anita Leslie was a lionhearted heroine of the first order, whose extraordinary bravery and sangfroid knew no bounds...An astonishing life and a fascinating book (Anjelica Huston 2017-05-23)

In this remarkable memoir, originally published in the UK in 1948 and appearing in the US for the first time, Leslie writes with wit and candor of fulfilling her patriotic duty as a female ambulance driver (Publishers Weekly 2018-04-23)

A triumph of a memoir. Anita Leslie bears testament to the many courageous women who lived and fought in World War II (Amanda Foreman author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 2017-11-02)

For every distressing episode there is the leavening effect of Anita Leslie's indomitable spirit, her canny observations and wry sense of humour in the face of unimaginable adversity, all of which turned the book into something quite unexpected and extraordinary (Dovegreyreader 2017-11-12)

A vivid reminder that a woman can experience and write about a war, and seventy years on, her words stand the test of time: precise and compelling (Kate Adie BBC broadcaster 2017-05-17)

It's glorious! Had me utterly gripped, I couldn't put it down. I wish I'd been able to meet her and ask her a thousand questions about the war (Caroline Wyatt BBC War Correspondent 2017-08-24)

The emotional truths of front-line war revealed - a charming writer, bold, female and brave (Fay Weldon Author of Death of a She Devil 2017-05-19)

Train to Nowhere speaks of another mood, a different time and a grittier generation...This, surely, is the second world war we want to rediscover in print (Robert McCrum Observer)

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One of Hay Festival's 100 Best Books Written by Women in the Last 100 Years

'Train to Nowhere speaks of another mood, a different time and a grittier generation...This, surely, is the second world war we want to rediscover in print' Robert McCrum, Observer

'If Evelyn Waugh's Mrs Algernon Stitch had been possessed of a heart, a sense of humour, and a glorious prose style, it could be said that she was a dead ringer for Anita Leslie. Train to Nowhere is a glorious book, brought back to vivid life.' John Banville, Booker Prize winning author of The Sea

'Train To Nowhere is the most gripping piece of war reportage I have ever read: particularly affecting is Anita Leslie's account of the Battle of Colmar, where her descriptions are almost too unbearable to take in. What a writer! Her observations, mixed with dry humour and compassion, place her at the heart of the conflict and somehow apart from it, as a good historian should be. Remarkable.' Joanna Lumley

Train to Nowhere is a war memoir seen through the sardonic eyes of Anita Leslie, a funny and vivacious young woman who reports on her experiences with a dry humour, finding the absurd alongside the tragic.

Daughter of a Baronet and first cousin once removed of Winston Churchill, she joined the Mechanized Transport Corps as a fully trained mechanic and ambulance driver during WWII, serving in Libya, Syria, Palestine, Italy, France and Germany. Ahead of her time, Anita bemoans 'first-rate women subordinate to second-rate men,' and, as the British Army forbade women from serving at the front, joined the Free French Forces in order to do what she felt was her duty.

Writing letters in Hitler's recently vacated office and marching in the Victory parade contrast with observations of seeing friends murdered and a mother avenging her son by coldly shooting a prisoner of war. Unflinching and unsentimental, Train to Nowhere is a memoir of Anita's war, one that, long after it was written, remains poignant and relevant.

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