Lieutenant Sonia Vagliano
A Memoir of the World War II Refugee Crisis
Seiten
2022
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-8249-0 (ISBN)
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-8249-0 (ISBN)
Brings a young French lieutenant's memoirs to English-speaking audiences for the first time.
Hundreds of World War II memoirs and accounts have been written and documented, but the stories about the bravery and valor of the women who also served are rarely told. In Lieutenant Sonia Vagliano: Inside the World War II Refugee Crisis, Vagliano provides a gripping and compelling account of how she and her team of four women were attached to a 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, and 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 bared 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.
Hundreds of World War II memoirs and accounts have been written and documented, but the stories about the bravery and valor of the women who also served are rarely told. In Lieutenant Sonia Vagliano: Inside the World War II Refugee Crisis, Vagliano provides a gripping and compelling account of how she and her team of four women were attached to a 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, and 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 bared 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.
Crossing the Atlantic.
London
We Return to France
Bayeux
Fontenay-sur-Mer
Cavigny near St.-Lo
Mortain-Falaise
Le Mans-Paris
Northern France
Belgium
Brand
Brauweiler
Wetzlar
Buchenwald
Epilogue
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.02.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 12 b&w photos |
| Verlagsort | Lexington |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8131-8249-2 / 0813182492 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8131-8249-0 / 9780813182490 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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