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04335aam a2200637 i 4500 001 2F38E03649F311ED9CAF447533ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221012010028 008 210810s2022 kyua b 000 0aeng 010 $a 2021039348 020 $a 0813182492 020 $a 9780813182490 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d CDX $d OCLCO $d YDX $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-fr--- 050 00 $a D811.V26 $b A3713 2022 050 04 $a D811 $b .V2613 2022 082 00 $a 940.54/8144 $2 23 100 1 $a Vagliano-Eloy, Sonia, $e author. 240 10 $a Demoiselles De Gaulle, 1943-1945. $l English 245 10 $a Lieutenant Sonia Vagliano : $b a memoir of the World War II refugee crisis / $c Sonia Vagliano Eloy ; edited and translated by Martha Noel Evans. 264 1 $a Lexington, Kentucky : $b The University Press of Kentucky, $c [2022] 300 $a xxiv, 242 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 23 cm 500 $a "Originally published in French as Les Demoiselles de Gaulle, 1943-1945. Paris: Plon, 1982"--Title page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242). 520 $a "Hundreds of World War II memoirs have been written, but the stories about the bravery and valor of the women who also served are rarely told. In Lieutenant Sonia Vagliano: A Memoir of the World War II Refugee Crisis, Vagliano provides a gripping and compelling account of how she and her team of four French women were attached to an American First Army unit that arrived in Normandy two weeks after D Day. From 1943 to 1945, Vagliano followed her unit from Normandy to Paris, through Belgium, and finally into Germany where they cared for 20,000 displaced persons and prisoners of war each day. Rich in detail, Vagliano not only describes her experiences-from caring for thousands of refugees in the worst possible conditions, to defusing landmines, being kidnapped, shot at, torpedoed, and bombed-she also recounts the major events of the war in Europe including the liberation of Paris, the Battle of the Bulge, and, finally, the concentration camps. Spending five weeks at Buchenwald repatriating the 21,000 prisoners still there, she provides a unique witness to the transition period between the liberation of the camp and its turnover to the Russians in July 1945, and saw first-hand "to what extremes the human imagination can go in its search for the most cruel methods of torture." Striking a balance between daredevil-level escapades and the sobering reality of a war-time account, this book won the 1982 Saint Simon award for best memoir of the year under its original title Les Demoiselles de Gualle. Now translator and editor Martha Noel Evans brings the young French lieutenant's memoirs to English-speaking audiences for the first time"-- $c Provided by publisher. 546 $a Translated from the French. 600 10 $a Vagliano-Eloy, Sonia. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $v Personal narratives, French. 610 20 $a France combattante. $b Mission militaire de liaison administrative. 610 20 $a France combattante $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women soldiers $z France $v Biography. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Refugees. 650 6 $a Femmes militaires $z France $v Biographies. 650 6 $a Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 $x ReÌfugieÌs. 600 17 $a Vagliano-Eloy, Sonia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00099080 610 27 $a France combattante. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00575338 650 7 $a Refugees. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01092797 650 7 $a Women soldiers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01178559 651 7 $a France. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204289 648 7 $a 1939-1945 $2 fast 655 2 $a Biography 655 2 $a Personal Narrative 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Personal narratives $v French. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01424110 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Personal narratives. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 rvmgf 655 7 $a ReÌcits personnels. $2 rvmgf 700 1 $a Evans, Martha Noel, $d 1939- $e editor. 765 08 $i Translation of: $a Vagliano-Eloy, Sonia. $t Demoiselles De Gaulle, 1943-1945 $z 2259009069 $w (DLC) 82160091 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20221012010528.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2F38E03649F311ED9CAF447533ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search