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Title:
Season of suffering : coming of age in occupied France, 1940-45
Summary:
The Nazi invasion forever altered 13-year-old Nicole Braux’s world in 1940. Four years later, following liberation, she found herself deeply in love with an American, a pilot for General Patton. Her memoir draws a poignant, candid rendering of her life as a passionate French adolescent under German occupation—an existence drenched in deprivation and despair, but also marked by miraculous events and unexpected romance.-- Publisher.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Bittersweet -- First love, guilt, jealousy -- Sidebar: Braux family -- Hard times and illness -- Sidebar: Faucheur family -- Grandmother Faucheur's magic basket -- Sidebar: The Ququ cousins -- Sidebar: Germaine and Lucien -- La fete au village -- First communion -- The Depression -- Sidebar: Braux family neighbors, Blvd. Foch locality -- Sidebar: Others in Nancy -- War clouds gather -- Tocsin -- Gasmasks -- Food coupons -- First bombing -- Grandmother Braux -- Occupation -- Sidebar: Occupied zone -- Sidebar: The Vichy government -- Father is alive! -- The black market -- The underground -- 1942-1943 -- The blackout -- My first job -- Sidebar: Cecile and Nicole's work associates -- Paulette and Walty -- Style and clothing -- De Gaulle and the Americans -- D-Day, June 6, 1944 -- Liberation -- September 18 -- Sidebar: Reminiscences of Guy Calba -- War brides -- 1945 -- Friday, June 15, 1945 -- Sidebar: Liberation commemorative article in the L'Est républicain, September 9, 1994.
Physical Description:
177 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher:
Washington State University Press,
Publication Date:
2010
ISBN:
9780874223057
Publication Information:
Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press, c2010.
Call Number:
944 TAFLING
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