The Time of My Life: Entertaining the Troops, Her Wartime Journals

Joyce Grenfell, edited and introduced by James-Roose-Evans

ISBN 10: 0340502835 / ISBN 13: 9780340502839

Edité par Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto, 1989

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Light wear on the jacket, mostly along the top edge, including very small tears and creases, not price clipped.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Time of My Life: Entertaining the Troops, Her Wartime Journals
• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto
• Date de parution: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0340502835
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780340502839
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Good

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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.

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.