Darkness Before Dawn
By Ingrid Pitt.Paperback.
Published 2004.
Published by Midnight Marquee Press.
ISBN 13: 9781887664547
ISBN 10: 1887664548
ASIN: 1887664548
Description:
At
the age of five, Ingrid Pitt found herself in a concentration camp. Ingrid and
her mother escaped from the guards while on a forced march and presented
themselves to the partisans, unsure if they would kill them. They spent the
rest of the war in the forests. Ingrid fell in love for the first time and
watched in despair as British bombers flew overhead. She still cannot see the
vapor trials of planes without being transported back to her childhood vigil.
After the war Ingrid came to London, where she developed a career as a Hammer
House of Horror movie star, but, as she proudly says, `I was always the biter,
never the bitten!' She also acted in mainstream films, such as WHERE EAGLES
DARE. She had a child by her first marriage and a grand passion which lead to
her marrying a racing driver. They lived in Argentina for a while and were good
friends of President Peron and Isabelits Peron. Ingrid even spent an evening
with the embalmed body of Eva Peron. Written with great passion and warmth,
this is a rare childhood memoir and the story of Hammer`s most glamorous
actress. Above all, this is a story of a survivor.