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Immigrant, a memoir across the Atlantic, by Sally Bennett

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Immigrant, a memoir across the Atlantic, by Sally Bennett

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Immigrant

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

850209717

Responsibility statement

by Sally Bennett

Sub title

a memoir across the Atlantic

Summary

A Memoir Across the Atlantic I was born in 1932 in Yorkshire to parents who had survived World War I and had seen England change from an agricultural to an industrial country. A visiting American engineer changed our lives when he asked my mother to leave my father and accompany him to Spain, which she did, taking me with her. When World War II changed Europe forever, my English mother, my sister, and I fled to America, leaving my stepfather behind to work for the OSS and to begin an affair with a Spanish spy whom he later married. The war over, my mother, sister, and I returned

Table Of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Chapter 1: 1932: Yorkshire; Chapter 2: 1933-1940: Spain, Portugal; Chapter 3: Flight; Chapter 4: 1940: America; Chapter 5: 1941: Savannah; Chapter 6: 1944: Savannah, Hendersonville; Chapter 7: 1945: The Crossing; Chapter 8: Portugal Redux; Chapter 9: Mont'Alegre; Chapter 10: The Confidant; Chapter 11: School; Chapter 12: 1917: England; Chapter 13: Bill and Doris; Chapter 14: Sylvia and Jack; Chapter 15: Fraulein; Chapter 16: Goodbye, Portugal; Chapter 17: 1946: England; Chapter 18: Leyland House: Part One; Chapter 19: Leyland House: Part TwoChapter 20: BennettChapter 21: Goodbye, England; Chapter 22: 1947: America Redux; Chapter 23: 1947: Winchester; Chapter 24: 1950: High School; Chapter 25: 1951: Richmond; Chapter 26: The World; Afterword; Appendix; References; Acknowledgements; Copyright

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