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"... Darkness and mud, rain and snow and a bedraggled crowd of French youngsters floundering through the stormy dark to our draughty canteen. Dorea, Barbara and Oscar Cachera, our stalwart French orderly, drawing beer from casks under the counter. Maria in charge of the milk bar, Cynthia and Rosie selling razor blades, shoelaces, chocolates and cigarettes — myself behind mountains of cakes that melt into the curly mouths of the children who have come from Rouen and Beauvais and Paris to shiver through an English winter and try to learn to fight for a country that has willed not to fight any more. ..."
Journey Down a Blind Alley
Mary Borddn Laurent Laloup le lundi 18 mai 2020 Contribution au livre ouvert de Oscar Pascal Cachera | |
