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Greasepaint and Cordite: How ENSA Entertained the Troops During World War II - Hardcover

Merriman, Andy

 
9781845136185: Greasepaint and Cordite: How ENSA Entertained the Troops During World War II
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1845136187 ISBN 13: 9781845136185
Verlag: Aurum, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Once the Second World War had broken out, it soon became clear that morale would be crucial in the military effectiveness of our armed forces. And so was born the Entertainment National Services Association, or ENSA – to send the nation’ s best singers, dancers, musicians and comedians, from Noë l Coward to Gracie Fields, to entertain the troops, however far away they might be.

Over the course of the war ENSA gave their first break to such postwar stars as Tommy Cooper and Frankie Howerd, as well as enshrining the young Vera Lynn forever as the forces’ sweetheart. When Allied troops landed in Normandy in 1944, George Formby followed close behind, while a distinguished troupe under Laurence Olivier was performing Shakespeare to British soldiers in Hamburg within weeks of the German surrender.

Now, Andrew Merriman has talked to surviving ENSA veterans from Vera Lynn to Dame Beryl Grey, to piece together the extraordinary adventures of the ordinary men and women sent out across the world – even to inhospitable, dangerous Burma – whose contribution to the war effort was song, dance and laughter.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andy Merriman is the author of several books, including Greasepaint and Cordite, the story of the young entertainers sent out to war to dance and sing, Margaret Rutherford: Dreadnought with Good Manners, Hattie, the authorised biography of Hattie Jacques, and A Minor Adjustment, a book about his daughter who has Down’s syndrome. Andy, who writes for radio and television, lives in London with his wife and three children.

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Verlag
Aurum
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1845136187
ISBN 13 
9781845136185
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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