How I Won the War for the Allies

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Filigrane

Année de parution:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781553803188

<p class="MsoNormal">Still sassy, Doris&#10;Gregory takes the reader back over seventy years to the time when she broke&#10;with tradition, first by publicly challenging the University of British&#10;Columbia&#8217;s discrimination against women, and then by joining the Canadian&#10;Women&#8217;s Army Corps. <b></b></p>&#10;&#10;<p class="MsoNormal">Gregory&#8217;s memoir allows us to travel with her across the&#10;Atlantic at the height of the U-boat infestation and to take refuge in&#10;underground shelters while bombs fall on London. Unlike most memoirs of the war&#10;that focus on battles, Gregory shows the everyday mundane activities of office&#10;life, working under some less-than-brilliant supervisors. Gregory transforms&#10;what could have been a dull soldier&#8217;s life into one of small adventures:&#10;cycling along traffic-free roads through southern England, the midlands and&#10;Scottish Lowlands, hopping on the ferry to Ulster, slipping into neutral,&#10;forbidden Eire, and looking into the gun barrel of an angry German sentry. </p>&#10;&#10;<p class="MsoNormal">Although at times the war weighs heavily upon her, the&#10;author&#8217;s optimism, enthusiasm and sense of humour permeate this memoir, full of&#10;laughter and surprises.</p>