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

Published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto, 1989

About this Item

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

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Time of My Life: Entertaining the Troops, Her Wartime Journals
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340502835
• ISBN 13: 9780340502839
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

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.

About the Author

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 Noël 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.