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Description for Rosie's War
Hardcover. 8vo .Good copy
Rosie, a young Englishwoman from a comfortable middle-class background, left her London home in 1939 to work as an au pair in Avignon in the South of France. Even the outbreak of war later that year did little to disturb her happy life there, until 1940 when Hitler launched an all-out assault on Western Europe. Trying to escape back to Britain, Rosie was only able to flee as far as Paris, where she was eventually rounded up as an 'enemy alien' and sent to a German-run prison camp in Eastern France. Desperate to escape, she eventually did so with an ... Read more
Rosie, a young Englishwoman from a comfortable middle-class background, left her London home in 1939 to work as an au pair in Avignon in the South of France. Even the outbreak of war later that year did little to disturb her happy life there, until 1940 when Hitler launched an all-out assault on Western Europe. Trying to escape back to Britain, Rosie was only able to flee as far as Paris, where she was eventually rounded up as an 'enemy alien' and sent to a German-run prison camp in Eastern France. Desperate to escape, she eventually did so with an ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Michael O'Mara Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843175575
SKU
KEX0293732
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Noel Holland
Noel Holland is the husband and wife team of Noel Fursman and Julia Holland. They now live on the Beara Peninsula in the south-west of Ireland, where for several years they ran a secondhand bookshop, Noel & Holland Books.
Reviews for Rosie's War
Extraordinary - a must-read Stylist A truly powerful book Woman's Own Exciting, vividly told... The pages of this droll, fascinating posthumous memoir are fond witness to Rosemary Say's brio and quirky sense of fun
John Lahr The New Yorker This story of Rosie's horrifying imprisonment and daring escape is both frank and satisfyingly unsentimental Readers' Digest Terrific, a most ... Read more
John Lahr The New Yorker This story of Rosie's horrifying imprisonment and daring escape is both frank and satisfyingly unsentimental Readers' Digest Terrific, a most ... Read more