Peggy Scholberg, Author “Girls in a World at War” Reading and Signing at Fact & Fiction Books

About the Author:

At a Paris train station just after the war, Nancy Ewing met and soon married Jack Munro, who had served in England. They settled in Missoula, Montana, where he served as a professor of Education and Nancy as a Head Start Nutritionist. Both were longtime members of the Holy Spirit Parish.

 In 1957, Nancy typed up her experiences being in service in World War II—a 660-page manuscript that was never published. Recently, after retiring, her daughter, Peggy Munro Scholberg, pulled it off the shelf, shortened it, and got published it as Girls in a World at War. Peggy and her husband Bill live in Apple Valley, Minnesota, where they raised two sons. 

About the Book: At age 23, in 1943, Nancy Ewing had graduated from Iowa State and had completed a Dietician internship at Cook County Hospital. Determined to make a difference, and hoping to “make Spam taste good,” she signed up to serve in the Army as a Dietician in WW2. Learn how she and other women faced the tragedies of the war. At a hospital in France, they served patients from the Battle of the Bulge—and fed some of the first near-death survivors of the Dachau Concentration Camp. They worked with Displaced Persons and German Prisoners of War as their help. The women’s unusual romances and weddings, travels about war-torn France, and the surprise birth of a baby are all part of her story.

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