{"product_id":"9781448216673","title":"Train to Nowhere: One Woman's World War II, Ambulance Driver, Reporter, Liberator","description":"\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eTrain To Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e is the most gripping piece of war reportage I have ever read: particularly affecting is Anita Leslie's account of the Battle of Colmar, where her descriptions are almost too unbearable to take in. What a writer! Her observations, mixed with dry humour and compassion, place her at the heart of the conflict and somehow apart from it, as a good historian should be. Remarkable.' Joanna Lumley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTrain to Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaughter of a Baronet and first cousin once removed of Winston Churchill, she joined the Mechanized 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 bemoans 'first-rate women subordinate to second-rate men,' and, as the British Army forbade women from serving at the front, joined the Free French Forces in order to do what she felt was her duty. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriting letters in Hitler's recently vacated office and marching in the Berlin 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, \u003ci\u003eTrain to Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable memoir of World War II.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor fans of \u003ci\u003eTo War With Whitaker: Wart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-45 \u003c\/i\u003eby Hermione Ranfurly, who features in \u003ci\u003eTrain To Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47155415482608,"sku":"9781448216673","price":9.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781448216673_p0.jpg?v=1763827642","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781448216673","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}