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East with ENSA : entertaining the troops in the Second World War / Catharine Wells.
LIBRA D810.E8 W45 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wells, Catharine, 1980-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Theater and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--War work.
- War work.
- Wells, Catharine, 1980-.
- Wells, Catharine.
- Dancers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Dancers.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 203 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Radcliffe Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- This is the story of Catherine Wells, a distinguished dancer, who toured with ENSA--the Entertainments National Service Association--in the Second World War. She began her wartime career in Britain, which then took her to Gibraltar, through the Mediterranean, then to North Africa, and finally India. Her story is full of danger, romance, and exotic and unusual places, and offers an entirely new perspective on the Second World War.
- ISBN:
- 1860647189
- OCLC:
- 49725951
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