“Extraordinary book, slightly autobiographic, showing the disaster of the French Campaign in 1940, from a French point of view, but with a twist. Indeed, it was written, unfinished, by naturalized French Irene Nemirovsky, just before she was arrested by the French police and given over to the Germans to be sent to Auschwitz where she was immediately gassed. It includes also one of the only written accounts, to my knowledge, of the battle for the bridge of Moulins (my home town). Account which fits quite well the oral one told to me by my grand-mother.”
Alphast wrote this review Saturday, September 29 2007.
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