Her Finest Hour

In this WWII memoir, a woman recounts her struggle to survive and serve her country in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force.

Marjorie Terry Smith was a teenage girl living in the suburbs of London when the Second World War began. Before it was over, her family would be bombed out of three homes, her fiancé would be killed fighting Rommel's forces in North Africa, and she would join the WAAF. Stationed in the operations rooms on seven different Royal Air Force bases, she encountered RAF legends Douglas Bader and Leonard Cheshire, as well as the indomitable Winston Churchill.

In Her Finest Hour, Smith recounts a youth in England leading up to the war, her six years of service, and life in a recovering England, in which she worked for the British Overseas Airways Corporation as well as the BBC. Vividly recalling how the war changed her life and the world around her, Smith offers a rare insider's view of WWII military operations from a woman's perspective, as told to her son, Stephen Doster.

Author: Stephen Doster
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 11/08/2022
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781504078221
ISBN10: 1504078225
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs