Giving it to them with both barrels.(Debs at War)(Book Review)

Publication: Spectator

Publication Date: 30-JUL-05

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DEBS AT WAR by Anne de Courcy Weidenfeld, 18.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 258, ISBN 0297829300 [telephone] 16.99 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.25 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 800 4848

Lavinia Holland-Hibbert joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) during her first Season. The following year, she forwent that Season's smartest ball, held at Blenheim Palace, to attend FANY camp. There she read War and Peace and quoted to herself Cecil Day Lewis: 'Who live under the shadow of war, what can we do that matters?' It was 1939. Lavinia had been finished in Paris and afterwards Munich. No one responsible for...

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