The Orphans of Normandy : A True Story of World War II Told Through Drawings by Children
~~ Nancy Amis
This is a wonderful little book that tells the story of the young orphan (or abandoned) girls from the La Maison du Clos in St. Andre-sur-Orne, a home and school for girls, in occupied France. These girls were forced to flee their home and school and take shelter in a cave on the night of June 6, 1944 to escape the Allied invansion of Normandy and the German defense of it. Eventually the girls were forced from the cave by German soldiers and they began a perilous journey to Beaufort, which took them nearly 2 months.
For it's illustrations, the book reproduces drawings, ragged edges and all, done by the girls as they remembered their journey; then translates the French from the drawings into English text for the pages facing each drawing.
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