Memoirs from Normandy: Childhood, War and Life’s Adventures

Memoirs from Normandy: Childhood, War and Life's Adventures





New Book Offers Humor and Pathos
A Boy Grows To Manhood in France-1928 to the Present

The author intended his memoirs just for friends and family, but their appeal is much wider. Explore history and culture, taste the personal meaning that forges human values.

Armand writes candidly of family ties, love of country, friendship, service to others and lasting achievements. He learns and grows, and develops an engaging and humorous story-telling style.

These memoirs move from mischievous childhood through wartime adolescence and the multitude of ways in which Armand played, learned, survived, worked, traveled and helped others. He gifted countless exchange students with Normandy's rich history, and shared the Norman's deep feelings for Americans. From Caen to its Omaha Beach American Military Cemetery, to the French Antilles, to Italy, and to the USA and back, Armand's memoirs are moving, while they entertain, educate, and inspire.

The author was born in Caen in 1928, and dishes up generous helpings of nostalgia for a France of yesteryear. After his father's death in 1942, he shared important decisions with his Mother. For a fifteen-year-old, the most important was the wrenching decision to flee their home after the Allies landed. With his little sister, they were greeted with open arms at the chateau of their friends, the Le Roy Laduries. The offer had been made in advance by Armand's friend, Francois, when the two boys were discussing the imminent and fervently-hoped-for landing. Refugee life included chateaux communes shared with German soldiers, gut-wrenching bombings that shook the solid chateau walls, and the deaths of beloved friends. Seventy-five per cent of the nearby city of Caen was destroyed--but rebuilt, as were their lives, after "those unforgettable days from the Landing to the Liberation."

Read on for hilarious stories following the post-war vogue of the occult in "Hypnosis, Magic and Mystery," then "The Happy Landlord," "Travels to Italy" (his most-beloved country, where he climbed EVERY volcano!), "April Fool's Jokes," "Working on the Railroad," "My Own United States of America," and three short stories that the author wrote in his youth.









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