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Jan 1, 2001 · Very good read. Totally enjoyable memoirs. I didn't know about Susan Travers before reading this book, even though I have read many books about the French Foreign Legions. What a broad! She led a wicked life, as she herself said and managed to gather quite a fruit salad along the way as well as a nice little family.
- Susan Travers (Author of Tomorrow to be Brave) - Goodreads
September 23, 1909. Died. December 18, 2003. edit data....
- Susan Travers (Author of Tomorrow to be Brave) - Goodreads
Dec 18, 2003 · September 23, 1909. Died. December 18, 2003. edit data. Travers was born in Southern England, the daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, but grew up in the South of France, where she was a semi-professional tennis player, speaking French and English with equal facility. Upon the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Travers joined the ...
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Jun 14, 2001 · An extravagant tale of war and romance, with a decided emphasis on the latter. Now in her 90s, Travers writes in an “I shall never forget” mode. With remarkable recall, she describes her cold English upbringing and portrays the tenor of society life in Cannes during the 1930s. In 1940 she changed her tennis whites for nurses’ khakis and ...
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Tomorrow to be Brave is the story of Susan Travers's extraordinary life, from her privileged childhood in England through her rebellious youth partying her way across interwar Europe, to her rash decision to join the Free French forces at the outbreak of World War II. In search of adventure -- and a break from her stifling upper-class world -- she could never have dreamed the pivotal role she ...
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- June 26, 2007
May 7, 2001 · Unlike many contemporary memoirists, Susan Travers waited to write her first book until its publication would no longer cause a scandal. At 91, the British-born Travers can rest easy.
Jan 1, 2000 · Susan Travers, now in her 90's, has a story to tell. The daughter of well-to-do English parents who lived in France for most of her adolesence, Travers spent most of the thirties on the continent, playing tennis, gambling, and cavorting with a series of lovers who were all uninterested in settling down with her.
- Hardcover
- Susan with Wendy Holden Travers
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Sep 24, 2009 · A British tennis-playing socialite became the only woman in the French Foreign Legion, leading a daring, wartime, desert escape. She would have been 100 this week and her story remains inspirational, writes biographer and friend Wendy Holden. When I first met Susan Travers in a Paris nursing home in 1999, she was a papery-skinned 90-year-old ...
