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he saw a bloody, swollen body of a woman on the truck floor…World War II, Part 10
Madame Seneschal told me that he first hint of trouble was her brother running into her front door telling her that the Gestapo chief Hildebrandt had just gotten out of his car in front of his farmhou… more →
From Normandy
In the Fog (V Tumane)
wrote 5 days ago: In the Fog (original title V Tumane) is a German/Dutch/Belarussian/Russia/Latvian Film, directed by … more →
RISK: The Video
wrote 1 week ago: Video showing an illustrated storyline of new novel, Risk goes live on YouTube: http://www.you … more →
Celebrating May 5th
wrote 1 week ago: The 5th of May is an official flag day. Denmark is celebrating the liberation from the German occupa … more →
Shakespeare and Company, Paris
wrote 1 month ago: Who hasn’t been told to hit up the Shakespeare and Co. Bookshop when in Paris? The dreamy Engl … more →
Les Enfants du paradis
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wrote 2 months ago: The screenwriter of “Enfants du paradis,” poet Jacques Prévert, claimed that cinema and poetry were … more →
From frivolity to Patriotism: Fashion under German Occupation
wrote 3 months ago: War and fashion are difficult to associate. One takes care of what is superfluous, the other one mus … more →
Mami real talk: My sad lesson in history by Yves Saint Laurent
wrote 3 months ago: My husband, George, and I were married in August 2000 after dating for four years. Ten years, three … more →
he saw a bloody, swollen body of a woman on the truck floor...World War II, Part 10
wrote 4 months ago: Madame Seneschal told me that he first hint of trouble was her brother running into her front door t … more →
Someone is stilling trying to kill me...World War II, Part 9
wrote 4 months ago: A few days before the first raid on Chateau de la Motte by the Gestapo, someone had hinted to Emile … more →
D-day ..red flashes and low rumbles, World War II, Part 8
wrote 4 months ago: June 6, followed days later: D-day, the Longest Day began. One and half million men assaulted and c … more →
Betrayed...World War II, Part 7
wrote 4 months ago: This region had little Resistance activity until now, what was happening and why? Neither the Allies … more →
A month before D-day, World War II, Part 6
wrote 4 months ago: April 27th, 1944, a little over one month before D-day, the regional Résistance chief, Jacques Focca … more →
I was tortured by the Gestapo...World War II, Part 5
wrote 4 months ago: “I was tortured by the Gestapo”, Madame Seneschal added in an off- hand way at the end of our conver … more →
The Occupation continued...World War II, Part 4
wrote 4 months ago: When I asked Madame Cavellot , a teenager then and now a local historian, what she remembered most a … more →
French under the Occupation World War II, Part 3
wrote 4 months ago: I do not think you know much about a country, or a person, unless you know their history, their stor … more →
Rethinking World War II, Part 1: November 17, 2008
wrote 4 months ago: Soon after arriving for our new lives of housesitting a chateau in France , the mayor told us at our … more →
Landscape and Memory July 24, 2007
wrote 4 months ago: Tomorrow, I will follow the medieval pilgrimage originating in Paris, which goes to Mont Saint Miche … more →
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
wrote 5 months ago: Set in London and the Island of Guernsey in 1946, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society … more →
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
wrote 6 months ago: Book: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Genre: … more →
