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Wartime Memoir Summary

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In Wartime Memoir, French Author Shares Family Challenges Jean Eugene Havel presents his family story as part of his country’s wartime narrative. As a young man in WWII France, Jean Eugene Havel faced not only family and socio-economic challenges but also violence and the horrors of war – experiences that the retired university professor had a hard time recalling and recounting in his memoir The Five Sisters: A Young Norman in the Second World War (Melrose Books, 2014). For most people, such memories are better left forgotten, but Havel felt he had to share them for the purpose of preserving history. The Five Sisters details Havel witnessing the Germans occupying his hometown of Le Havre and breaking into people’s houses, including his

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