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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taflinger, Nicole H., 1927-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taflinger, Nicole H., 1927---Childhood and youth.

Taflinger, Nicole H.

Taflinger, Nicole H., 1927---Family.

Teenage girls--France--Nancy--Biography.

Teenage girls.

Nancy (France)--Biography.

Nancy (France).

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.

France--Nancy.

World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--France--Nancy.

France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

France.

History.

Genre:

Personal narratives -- French.

Biographies.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

177 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press, [2010]

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.

ISBN:

9780874223057

0874223059

OCLC:

503827726