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Crossing the borders of time, a true story of war, exile, and love reclaimed, Leslie Maitland

eng

Includes bibliographical references

collective biography

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Crossing the borders of time

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Leslie Maitland

a true story of war, exile, and love reclaimed

Investigative reporter Leslie Maitland grew up enthralled by her mothers accounts of forbidden romance and harrowing flight from the Nazis. Her book is both a journalists vivid depiction of a world at war and a daughters pursuit of a haunting question: what had become of the handsome Frenchman whose picture her mother continued to treasure almost fifty years after they parted? It is a tale of memory that reporting made real and a story of undying love that crosses the borders of time

What's past is prologue -- The black forest -- Die Nazi-ziet -- The sidewalk of cuckolds -- The tattler's stone -- Gray days, phony war -- Traveling shoes -- Occupied -- A telling time -- Crossing the line -- The sun king -- J'attendrai -- A time out of time -- Darkness on the face of the deep -- Incommunicado -- Leben in limbo -- Hotel Terminus -- The lion and Miss America -- Love letters -- From the Dyckman House to our new house -- The other woman -- Atlas -- Togetherness -- Crossing the border -- The agenda -- Midi moins dix -- A la fin