Train to Nowhere: One Woman´s War: Ambulance Driver, Reporter, Liberator , Hörbuch, Digital, 1, 576min

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 Mechanised 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 bemoaned ´first-rate women subordinate to second-rate men´ and, as the English 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. With a new introduction by Penny Perrick. 1. Language: English. Narrator: Deryn Edwards. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031015/bk_adbl_031015_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.... Mehr