Memoir of an Only Child

"I never really felt the war. It's normal for a child. I sensed things weren't normal, like when we'd go out with my dad... But you know, kids they don't really care! It was during the war, but I lived in my child's world. I was between 5 and 10 years old." Michel Gervais shares his own child's perspective of the war in occupied France, the liberation, and living in the devastated town of Modane near the Italian border. We follow his adventures as an intern in Chambery, Lyon, and Paris. He recou