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Author:

Taflinger, Nicole H., 1927-

Title:

Season of suffering : coming of age in occupied France, 1940-45 / Nicole H. Taflinger.

Publisher:

Washington State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

177 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Taflinger, Nicole H.,--1927---Childhood and youth.
Taflinger, Nicole H.,--1927---Family.
Teenage girls--Nancy--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--Nancy.--Nancy.
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

Notes:

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 r©♭publicain, September 9, 1994.

ISBN:

0874223059
9780874223057

LCCN:

2010004255

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)