Memories of Wartime Wanderings: What I Did in WWII-Part Two
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (634 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00F4F2YQ4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 555 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Another Great View of WWII" according to Mcs Enterprises Skipper Steely. A fine look at several facets of World War II diplomacy; especially a neat view of Stanley Hornbeck as ambassador to the Netherlandswish the memoirs had been more detailed and used more of the letters she wrote.
Her ability to speak Afrikaans led to cordial relations with Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts.After contracting a rare (and usually fatal) tropical disease, bilharzias, Ann was reassigned to the American Embassy to the Government of the Netherlands-in-Exile in London. With the coming of Victory in Europe in 1945, she played a key role in mobilizing the return of the embassy staff to The Hague and spent two years in post-war Holland.By the summer of 1948, attacks of bilharzias were getting worse and Ann wanted to make a career change. were married in New York City. Thomas and Ann Van Wynen Thomas collaborated on a dozen volumes of legal scholarship. Until her death on March 27, 2013, she maintained a lively correspondence (by email) with former students and other contacts around the world, as well as continuing her research on the Supreme Court and giving monthly talks about controversial court decisions to local citizens.. This vivid and detailed memoir is drawn from hundreds of letters written to her parents during her Foreign Service career.Having grown up with her mother speaking Flemish and her father high Dutch, she was assigned to South Africa. Thomas, had completed his own Foreign Service tour and accepted a teaching post in the Law School of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.Ann left the Foreign Service in Sept. Foreign Service. At that point, with a po