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OverviewIrène's teenage years in Belgium are spent in the chaos of World War II. In May 1940, after the German invasion, her father is sent to the front, while she and her mother evacuate under German Stuka bomber attacks. On their exodus, they find refuge in southern France. Three months later returning across the German demarcation line, they find her father also back home. He had escaped from the Germans twice. Soon, he is dangerously mixing secret underground activity with his Gendarmerie job supervised by the Germans. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Irène Litz-BarréPublisher: Ten16 Press Imprint: Ten16 Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.254kg ISBN: 9781943331451ISBN 10: 1943331456 Pages: 196 Publication Date: 27 January 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews"""Reads like Hercule Poirot's daughter telling me her wartime adventures, a combination of propriety and danger. A story that needs to be shared."" ---- Nancy Martin, co-author of Patton's Lucky Scout" Reads like Hercule Poirot's daughter telling me her wartime adventures, a combination of propriety and danger. A story that needs to be shared. ---- Nancy Martin co-author of Patton's Lucky Scout Author InformationIrène Litz-Barré is a dedicated writer, educator, mother and grandmother. Born in 1928 in the French speaking part of Belgium, she was lovingly raised by a police commander father and an artistic mother before experiencing the shock of World War Two during her adolescent years. After the war, she married a French engineer and travelled throughout Europe and the United States. After her husband's tragic death in 1963, she became an official hostess for Bureau France in Zurich, Switzerland and travelled throughout Europe representing French culture. She married an American teacher of French Literature in 1966 and settled in central Switzerland. She became a mother and later a French teacher at a prestigious Swiss international boarding school. After her husband's passing in 2003, she moved to Brussels, Belgium before joining her son in the United States in 2006. She now lives in Milwaukee, WI and spends her time writing and being a doting grandmother to her grandson. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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