Pre-Owned Train to Nowhere: One Woman's World War II, Ambulance Driver, Reporter, Liberator Paperback

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'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 LumleyTrain 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.