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Telling Tales: The Fabulous Lives of Anita Leslie de Penny Perrick

Telling Tales: The Fabulous Lives of Anita Leslie

Autor Penny Perrick
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 iul 2018
The poignant biography of Anita Leslie, only woman to have been awarded both the Croix de Guerre and the Africa Star in World War II.Anita Leslie (1914-85), best known for popular biographies of her relatives including Jennie Churchill, Winston's mother, was also an unlikely war heroine. In 1940, Anita volunteered as an ambulance driver. By the end of the war, she was the only woman to have been awarded both the Africa Star and the Croix de Guerre, alongside the other medals for her service across all four fronts of WWII, as recounted in her remarkable memoir Train to Nowhere. In this revealing biography, Penny Perrick brings Anita to life: her complicated early years, her love for her children, her passion for Ireland, her career as a writer, and the ongoing family drama about Castle Leslie. Telling Tales is a scintillating and poignant account of this flamboyant woman.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781448217212
ISBN-10: 1448217210
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 8 pages of black and white images
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Caravel
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Cover echoes Anita's book Train to Nowhere, which was widely and excellently reviewed - visual ties

Notă biografică

Penny Perrick, who lived for many years in the west of Ireland, was a fashion editor for Vogue, a columnist on The Sun and The Times and a fiction editor for The Sunday Times. She is also a novelist and the author of Something to Hide, a biography of the poet Sheila Wingfield. Penny lives in London.

Cuprins

Introduction1. Putting on a Show2. An Education3. The Devil's Decade4. Married to the North Wind5. Things Fall Apart6. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute7. Sunburn Is So Unbecoming8. Laughter Among the Skulls9. A Cobweb of Affection10. The Woods Are Full of Germans11. The War Heroine12. The Unbearable Peace13. The Burden of the Day14. Charades at Castle Leslie15. 'He Enchants My Every Moment'16. A Sea Change17. Complicated Chronicles18. They All Talk Amusingly19. Invented Lives20. Jolly Old Age I'm Having21. This Leslie Half-World22. The Low-Down on the High-Ups23. Deaths and Entrances24. No Chance of a Warm Light Room25. The War Revisited26. Specialists in Survival27. Back Where She BelongedAcknowledgmentsBibliographyDramatis PersonaeAnita's HousesIndex

Recenzii

Enormously entertaining . A witty, elegantly written account of the many lives of a flawed, unconventional woman. Fascinating
Wonderfully involving and often very funny
A fascinating look at the life of an aristocratic war hero with a dark side
Perrick's spellbinding Telling Tales: The Fabulous Lives of Anita Leslie portrays her subject's shortcomings, but also her qualities
A picture of an era as well as an individual, full of spirit and panache
Her determination in sometimes grim circumstances to paint the world in sunshine showed the same kind of nonchalant heroism as her "startling achievements" during the war