'If Evelyn Waugh's Mrs Algernon Stitch had been possessed of a heart, a sense of humour, and a glorious prose style, it could be said that she was a dead ringer for Anita Leslie. Train to Nowhere is a glorious book, brought back to vivid life.'
John Banville, Booker Prize winning author of The Sea

'A vivid memoir, beautifully crafted, by a remarkable woman at a unique period in modern history.  A young cousin of Winston Churchill, she operated as an ambulance driver from 1940-1945 on the front lines in Africa, Arabia and Europe enduring with humour all the hardships and privations entailed in war by service personnel without rank. Her skills of observation are penetrating and make this book a marvellously accessible account of WWII.  Unputdownable.'
Mary S. Lovell, Internationally bestselling author of The Mitford Girls

'Train To Nowhere is the most gripping piece of war reportage I have ever read: particularly affecting is her account of the Battle of Colmar, where her descriptions are almost too unbearable to take in. What a writer! Her observations, mixed with dry humour and compassion, place her at the heart of the conflict and somehow apart from it, as a good historian should be. Remarkable.'
Joanna Lumley, Actress and Author

'The emotional truths of front-line war revealed – a charming writer, bold, female and brave'
Fay Weldon, Author of Death of a She Devil

'A vivid reminder that a woman can experience and write about a war, and seventy years on, her words stand the test of time: precise and compelling'
Kate Adie, BBC Broadcaster and Author

'Anita Leslie’s dispassionate account of her own extraordinary role in World War II is a rediscovered gem, and her harrowing description of the fighting in Alsace particularly stands out as one of the finest pieces of war reporting to come out of that or any other conflict….This is a remarkable book.' 
Ray Moseley, Pulitzer Prize nominated war correspondent and author of Reporting War How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II

'A sharply observed account of one woman's unique war. Surreal, funny, dark, and profoundly moving. Gold dust'
Rick Stroud, Author of Lonely Courage

'Nobody else has written about the war like this, a mixture of savagery and fun; perhaps Evelyn Waugh comes closest'
Penny Perrick, Author of Telling Tales: The Fabulous Lives of Anita Leslie

'Train to Nowhere speaks of another mood, a different time and a grittier generation...This, surely, is the second world war we want to rediscover in print'
Robert McCrum, Observer

'A terse, keen reticence and the summing up of deadly situations in a line or two'
The Times, 1948

'Calm, youthful candour ... forthright acceptance of the whole duty of war service'
Observer, 1948