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Season of suffering : coming of age in occupied France, 1940-45 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taflinger, Nicole H., 1927-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Taflinger, Nicole H., > 1927- > Childhood and youth.
Taflinger, Nicole H., > 1927- > Family.
Teenage girls > France > Nancy > Biography.
Nancy (France) > Biography.
Nancy (France) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Nancy (France) > History, Military > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, French.
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > France > Nancy.
France > History > German occupation, 1940-1945.
Table of 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.