Clare Mulley

The lure of a well-tailored uniform

She was also awarded the Africa Star. But Penny Perrick’s biography is more concerned with snobbery and racism than wartime heroics

issue 18 August 2018

  • Telling Tales: The Fabulous Lives of Anita Leslie

    Penny Perrick

    Bloomsbury Caravel, pp. 288

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