Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly, kept a diary all her life. To War with Whitaker is an account of the most adventurous, most defiant and most valiant of those years.
Hermione and Dan Ranfurly married only months before the Second World War erupted. So when Dan was posted to the Middle East, taking their faithful butler Whitaker with him, Hermione resolved to join them there. This memoir offers astounding displays of commitment and independence. After vowing not to go home without her husband, Hermione travelled alone from Cape Town to Cairo, and remained in the Middle East and North Africa for the two and a half years he was imprisoned by the Germans – meeting many notable characters along the way.
With wit and exuberance, Hermione’s diary entries take us To War with Whitaker and back again, providing sharp insight into the strong and outspoken woman she was. This Pan Heritage Classics edition features the original black and white plate sections.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509856213
Number of pages: 380
Weight: 278 g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 24 mm
An extraordinary story. No review can do justice to the writing - Robert Rhodes James, Sunday Express
These absolutely spiffing diaries offer a madcap, aristocratic window behind the lines of war - Daily Mail
Few diaries from any era could be as fascinating . . . This is truly compulsive reading - Woman & Home
The contents of this book are fascinating, when you can understand them. No reflection on Waterstones but this edition by Bello, part of Pan Macmillan, is dreadful. It appears to have been OCRed from another text... More
Not a very catchy title to this review but it accurately conveys the substance of this brilliant book. It is set on the eve of the Second World War with Hermione marrying Dan Ranfurly, both of them aristocrats but... More
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