Recommended reading - Darkness Before Dawn

Darkness Before Dawn

by Ingrid Pitt.
 
Paperback.
Published 2004.
Published by Midnight Marquee Press.

ISBN 13: 9781887664547
ISBN 10: 1887664548
ASIN: 1887664548
 
Description:
 
Revised and expanded edition, previously published as Life's a Scream: The Autobiography of Ingrid Pitt (1999).
 

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.