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"Fascinating, brilliant WWII drama"
Reviewed by DeborahAnne MacGillivray
Posted February 20, 2004 on The Best Reviews
"Terrific Research - Marvelous Read"
Reviewed by Marilyn Rondeau
Posted February 21, 2007 on The Best Reviews
SummaryNew York City, the capital of the free world, is dark, its
lights turned off as enemy submarines lurk offshore, as
close as Coney Island. Three men - a gunner from a B-17
bomber who's a national hero, a magazine editor uprooted
from civilian life and attached to the Allied High Command,
and the violence-stalked captain of a Royal Merchant Navy
freighter - find their destinies linked with three
volunteer hostesses from New York's famous Stage Door
Canteen. Genevieve Rose is a beautiful Broadway star in an
experimental Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that seems
headed for disaster. Elise Ginsberg is an indomitable young
refugee from Hitler's terror. And Bernadine Flaherty is the
ambitious, talented teenage dancer from Brooklyn hoping for
her big show business break. Against Manhattan's wartime
glamor, GIs fresh from combat in North Africa and the
Pacific find themselves dancing with the likes of the Stage
Door Canteen's Katherine Hepburn and Ava Gardner. Food,
whiskey and clothes are rationed, and spies are where one
least expects to find them. Life is lived for the moment,
love is passionate and often random, and those who can,
snatch at a chance for happiness. For beyond the frenetic
blackout, the entire world is fighting and dying.
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