Six Years After D-Day Cycling through Europe by Marie Bennett Alsmeyer Introduction by Linda Grant De Pauw

In 1950, a young couple (both WWII veterans—a WAVE and an airman—and both with GI Bill journalism degrees) quit their jobs on a South Texas weekly newspaper and embarked upon a 1,200-mile bicycle tour through Europe.

"Such a trip made no sense at all in 1950," writes Alsmeyer, "but it was a gloriously crazy, senseless thing to do." Based on notes, diaries, and letter, the book is more than a mere travelogue. It chronicles the people and places of post-war western Europe—including the citizens of Vimoutiers, France, a town accidentally bombed by Americans.

Bicycle enthusiasts, war historians, sociologists, women's studies scholars, and readers of travel narratives will all find something of interest in this charmingly written narrative.

MARIE BENNETT ALSMEYER served as a pharmacist's mate in the Navy WAVES during WWII. Her previous books are The Way of the Waves and Old WAVES Tales. LINDA GRANT DE PAUW is editor and publisher of MINERVA, Quarterly Report on Women and the Military.

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Six Years After D-Day
ISBN 0-929398-82-3 paper $16.95s

6x9. 176 pp. 20 photos. Map. Index.
Women's Studies. Military History. Geography and Travel.

Publication Date: April 1995.

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