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©2025
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xiii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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So far from Paris (March 28-April 7, 1945) -- A field of ruins (April 7-April 29, 1945) -- On the job (April 29-May 2, 1945) -- France in Poland (May 2 -- early June 1945) -- Staying on your feet (June 1945) -- The Blue Squadron (April 1945) -- Hell (April 29, 1945) -- Still Hell (May 1945) -- Dying for Gdansk (May 29-June 2,1945) -- Wheels Turning Before Poland (June-July 1945) -- "We'd Die for Pauliac" ( July 27, 1945) -- Escapes (August-September 1945) -- Normandie-Niemen (September-October 1945) -- No-Go Zones (September-October 1945) -- A Last Christmas (December 1945) -- Back Home (December 1945-January 1946) -- The Accident (February 13, 1946) -- Farewell (July 27, 1946) -- And Now
"Band of Sisters tells the dramatic story of Madeleine Pauliac, a French army doctor, and a band of women known as the Blue Squadron in the final days of World War II operating in the most dangerous of circumstances to rescue and repatriate as many of the half million or so of their countrymen as possible"--
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