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Susan Travers dreamed of an adventurous life, but had little chance
of it until the Second World War destroyed her cafe society world
and freed her from the bonds of her privileged but stifling
upbringing. Leaving her peripatetic, party-girl lifestyle behind
her, she drank a last cocktail at her friend Gladys's chateau,
locked the door behind her and walked into history. Here for the
first time, the life story of the only woman to fight for the
French Legion is one that few dare to even imagine. Born to a life
of privilege, Susan spends her childhood longing for excitement.
After being expelled from finishing school for being too interested
in men, she signed up with the Free French in 1940 and sailed to
Africa where she traveled the country fighting the war and taking
on lovers, eventually becoming a driver to General Koenig of the
Foreign Legion. He was to become her lover and the man for whom she
would risk everything. A military leader of Olympian detach, he was
in private a sensitive soul, sharing poetry with Susan, including
the piece from which the title of the book is taken, Tomorrow To Be
Brave. He was also the man who helped change the face of Rommel's
North African campaign. At the great siege of Bir Hakeim, the
general's troops were surrounded for fifteen days by Rommel's
Panzer division. Susan refused to leave the General's side and
evetually, at the wheel of his car, led the convoy of vehicles and
men across the minefields as part of a daring mass breakout. Hailed
as the heroine of the night, Susan was rewarded with the love and
loyalty of the legion with whom she served as its only official
female member ever. In 1997 in a simple ceremony attended by the
few remaining survivors of the corps with which she fought, the
Legion presented Susan Travers, now a frail 88 year old, with the
Legion d'Honneur--their highest award for bravery. She lives
quietly to this day in a modest nursing home outside Paris where
only a very few know what circuitous and fantastic a path led her
there--until now.
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