Time of My Life: Entertaining the Troops : Her Wartime Diaries - Couverture rigide

Grenfell, Joyce

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0340502835 ISBN 13 : 9780340502839

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1989

Synopsis

These journals cover the author's war time travels entertaining Allied troops in North Africa, the Middle East and India, 1944-45. The book is augmented by letters to her husband and letters to her in America.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Joyce Grenfell was born Joyce Phipps, daughter of the youngest of the beautiful American Langhorne sisters, of whom the most celebrated was Nancy, Lady Astor. Her girlhood, spent on the fringes of the famous Cliveden set among such men as George Bernard Shaw and No?l Coward, spanned the twenties, but it was not until 1938, at a dinner party, that she gave an impromptu imitation of a Women's Institute speaker and discovered her genius for dramatic monologue. She was an accomplished actress and starred in many well known films, including the St Trinian's series along with George Cole, Alastair Sim and Frankie Howerd. She was also a regular to television, radio and the stage, and entertained troops during the war with her usual wit, charm and humour. She died in 1979.

Présentation de l'éditeur

First published in 1989, this is a collection of the letters and journals Joyce Grenfell kept on her travels during the Second World War, revealing hilarious as well as fascinating insights and observations to Cairo, Baghdad and India.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0340502835
• ISBN 13: 9780340502839
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Éditeur: Roose-Evans James
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