The coldest winter : a stringer in liberated Europe
Fox, Paula
The coldest winter : a stringer in liberated Europe / Paula Fox - 1st ed. - New York : H. Holt , 2005. - 133 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
In 1946, Paula Fox walked up the gangplank of a partly reconverted Liberty with the classic American hope of finding experienceor perhaps salvationin Europe. She was twenty-two years old, and would spend the next year moving among the ruins of London, Warsaw, Paris, Prague, Madrid, and other cities as a stringer for a small British news service. In this lucid, affecting memoir, Fox describes her movements across Europes scrambled borders: unplanned trips to empty castles and ruined cathedrals, a stint in bombed-out Warsaw in the midst of the Communist election takeovers, and nights spent in apartments here and there with distant relatives, friends of friends, and in shabby pensions with little heat, each place echoing with the horrors of the war. A young woman alone, with neither a plan nor a reliable paycheck, Fox made her way with the rest of Europe as the continent rebuilt and rediscovered itself among the ruins.
9780805070860
2005040254
Fox, Paula---Homes and haunts---Europe.
Authors, American---20th century----Biography
Journalists---United States----Biography
Journalists----Europe----Biography.
Americans---Europe----Biography
Europe---History---1945-
PS3556.O94 / Z465 2005
92 FOX
The coldest winter : a stringer in liberated Europe / Paula Fox - 1st ed. - New York : H. Holt , 2005. - 133 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
In 1946, Paula Fox walked up the gangplank of a partly reconverted Liberty with the classic American hope of finding experienceor perhaps salvationin Europe. She was twenty-two years old, and would spend the next year moving among the ruins of London, Warsaw, Paris, Prague, Madrid, and other cities as a stringer for a small British news service. In this lucid, affecting memoir, Fox describes her movements across Europes scrambled borders: unplanned trips to empty castles and ruined cathedrals, a stint in bombed-out Warsaw in the midst of the Communist election takeovers, and nights spent in apartments here and there with distant relatives, friends of friends, and in shabby pensions with little heat, each place echoing with the horrors of the war. A young woman alone, with neither a plan nor a reliable paycheck, Fox made her way with the rest of Europe as the continent rebuilt and rediscovered itself among the ruins.
9780805070860
2005040254
Fox, Paula---Homes and haunts---Europe.
Authors, American---20th century----Biography
Journalists---United States----Biography
Journalists----Europe----Biography.
Americans---Europe----Biography
Europe---History---1945-
PS3556.O94 / Z465 2005
92 FOX
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