When Hitler trained his lethal eye on the occupation of France, the Gaillet family was forced from their resplendent home near the Belgian border by a bullet through their front door and a German soldier's scream to evacuate within twenty-four hours. Thus begins the harrowing odyssey of four-year-old Helene and her five siblings, who in 1940 abandoned everything they knew, and remained on the brink of disaster for four brutal years.
"I was a War Child: World War II Memoir of a little French Catholic girl "is the rare and raw account of one family's exodus from the front line of the Nazi...
When Hitler trained his lethal eye on the occupation of France, the Gaillet family was forced from their resplendent home near the Belgian border b...
