Band of Sisters

Madeleine Pauliac, the Women of the Blue Squadron, and Their Daring Rescue Missions in the Last Days of World War II

Philippe Maynial (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2025
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-9879-7 (ISBN)

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Band of Sisters tells the dramatic story of Madeleine Pauliac, a French army doctor, and a band of women—known as the Blue Squadron---in the final days of World War II operating in the most dangerous of circumstances to rescue and repatriate as many of the half million or so of their countrymen as possible.

Band of Sisters tells the dramatic story of Madeleine Pauliac, a French army doctor, and a group of Red Cross nurses—known as the Blue Squadron. At the request of Charles DeGualle, the group was sent to rescue French soldiers and civilians who had been captured, injured, or stranded during World War II. Written from letters, diary entries and interviews, the book recounts their rescue missions in Germany, Russia, and Poland in 1945, in the final days of the war and in the first months after the German defeat.

It’s a previously unknown story of heroism and daring by a remarkable group of women, none more brave and intrepid than Pauliac herself, who was the author’s aunt that he would never know.

Philippe Maynial is a film executive turned writer and the nephew of Madeline Pauliac, the main character of the narrative. Before he embarked on his research into his aunt’s experiences in World War II, Maynial spent his entire career in the film industry. He currently resides in France. Richard Bernstein has been a prominent journalist and writer for forty years, first with Time magazine, then for a quarter of a century at The New York Times, and currently as a freelance writer and editor living in Brooklyn, NY. His foreign assignments for The Times included the posts of bureau chief at the United Nations, the Paris bureau, and Berlin. For six years, he was one of the paper’s daily book critics.

Prologue
Chapter One: So far from Paris (March 28-April 7, 1945)
Chapter Two: A field of ruins (April 7-April 29, 1945)
Chapter Three: On the job (April 29-May 2, 1945)
Chapter Four: France in Poland (May 2 - early June 1945)
Chapter Five: Staying on your feet (June 1945)
Chapter Six: The Blue Squadron (April 1945)
Chapter Seven: Hell (April 29, 1945)
Chapter Eight: Still Hell (May 1945)
Chapter Nine: Dying for Gdansk (May 29-June 2,1945)
Chapter Ten: Wheels Turning Before Poland (June-July 1945)
Chapter Eleven: “We’d Die for Pauliac” ( July 27, 1945)
Chapter Twelve: Escapes (August-September 1945)
Chapter Thirteen: Normandie-Niemen (September-October 1945)
Chapter Fourteen: No-Go Zones (September-October 1945)
Chapter Fifteen: A Last Christmas (December 1945)
Chapter Sixteen: Back Home (December 1945-January 1946)
Chapter Seventeen: The Accident (February 13, 1946)
Chapter Eighteen: Farewell (July 27, 1946)
Chapter Nineteen: And Now
Appendix One: the Abbey Beilliard’s Speech.
Appendix Two: What Became of Them.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.01.2025
Übersetzer	Richard Bernstein
Zusatzinfo	26 BW Photos
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 218 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-5381-9879-7 / 1538198797
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-9879-7 / 9781538198797
Zustand	Neuware