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Description for Rosie's War
Paperback. The extraordinary and genuine account of Rosemary Say - an attractive and courageous young Englishwoman whose emigration to France in 1939 led her to suffer the horrors of life under the Nazis Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 304. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
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 ... 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Michael O'Mara
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843179627
SKU
KTM0006516
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
Reviews for Rosie's War
Extraordinary - a must-read Stylist Her memoirs are equally understated, told in almost matter-of-fact prose which somehow makes her story all the more compelling Daily Express A truly powerful book Woman's Own Terrific, a most remarkable and wonderfully atypical wartime story Barry Norman Exciting, vividly told... The pages of this droll, fascinating posthumous memoir are fond witness to Rosemary Say's ... Read more