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Very Good+ in Very Good++ jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 208 pp. Crisp, clean and bright with remainder mark on bottom page edge-light bumping on spine ends. Dust jacket is bright with minor wear. Nice copy-appears unread.
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New York. 2001. April 2001. Free Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0743201949. Translated from the French by Barbara Wright. 209 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Honi Werner. keywords: Autobiography France Women World War II French Resistance. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In 1966, a young student doing research in the National Library of France was confronted by an elderly gentleman who had overheard her name. Despite her polite denials, he insisted that she must be the daughter of the Resistance heroes Jacques and Lotka de PrEvaux. Curious about the strange episode, Aude Yung-de PrEvaux recounted the story to her mother. To Aude's amazement, her mother confirmed the old man's account and, shockingly, admitted she was actually Aude's aunt. Thus began an odyssey of discovery that uncovered not only Aude Yung-de PrEvaux's own hidden history, but also that of her tragic parents and their doomed love-one of the most haunting stories of the Second World War. Her father, Jacques Trolley de PrEvaux, was a brilliant and handsome vice admiral with a gift for diplomacy-and a penchant for literature, bohemian company, and opium. Her mother, Charlotte Leitner, was known to everyone as Lotka. A beautiful American-born Polish Jew who worked as a fashion model in Paris, was a headstrong and fiery woman. The two pledged themselves to the service of their country in its darkest hour, and the bravery they demonstrated as a couple made them two of the most significant Resistance fighters in the south of France. Days before the Allies liberated their prison, they were betrayed, and then executed on the orders of Klaus Barbie in August 1944-making an orphan of the author, their little girl. This extraordinary story, revealed as a result of one woman's quest to discover her past, recaptures a lost chapter in the history of a nation at war and returns to the pantheon two of its most romantic heroes. inventory #28826.
