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Jeunes Femmes en uniforme
Tereska Torrès

Tereska Torrès was one of the very first volunteers to respond to General de Gaulle's 1940 appeal to join the Free French Forces in London. This extraordinary experience was the inspiration for an autobiographical novel published in the USA as pulp fiction with the title Women’s Barracks. Her description of the women soldiers' mores caused a scandal, and the book was banned in several states, which only added to its success: 4 million copies sold in the USA alone, plus translations into 13 languages. Tereska Torrès, who refused for many years to allow a French translation out of fear of shocking her fellow French citizens, is now presenting a brand-new version. Her young heroines (Caron, Nellie, Muriel, Josette and Ursula – the stand-in for the author) were fearless and adventuresome to begin with, and the intensity of their wartime experiences made them even bolder. Out of their parents' sight, far from their daily lives – and the attendant social constraints that weighed them down – and aware that death could come at any moment, they decided to live life to the fullest, and to hell with what will the neighbors say! During the Blitz, taboos fell, and passionate liaisons grew both within the women's barracks and in the London neighborhoods bursting with sexy soldiers.

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  • Phébus
  • Littérature française
  • Publication date : 10/02/2011
  • Size : 14 x 20,5 cm, 192 p., 17,25 EUR €
  • ISBN 978-2-7529-0515-4
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