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In 1966, a young student doing research in the National Library of France was confronted by an elderly gentleman who had overheard her name. Despite her polite denials, he insisted that she must be the daughter of the Resistance heroes Jacques and Lotka de Prévaux. Curious about the strange episode, Aude Yung-de Prévaux recounted the story to her mother. To Aude's amazement, her mother confirmed the old man's account and, shockingly, admitted she was actually Aude's aunt. Thus began an odyssey of discovery that uncovered not only Aude Yung-de Prévaux's own hidden history, but also that of her tragic parents and their doomed love — one of the most haunting stories of the Second World War. <p>Using the tattered letters and military records she found in the trunks containing her father's belongings — now reclaimed from a godfather living in Morocco — as well as personal interviews, Yung-de Prévaux has reconstructed the lives of the parents she never knew. From the shadows of the chaotic war years emerges her real father, brother to the one she had known. Jacques Trolley de Prévaux was a brilliant and handsome vice admiral with a gift for diplomacy — and a penchant for literature, bohe

Author

Aude Yung-de Prev́aux

Publisher

New York: Free Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780743201940

Subjects

History, Biography, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14