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Linda Bastide publishes Les Otages Oubliés, a history of the Americans and British interned in France during the Occupation. A work biography of his family illustrated with numerous documents.
Linda Bastide has had a thousand lives: born in 1935 in Narbonne, she was a model and actress until 1968. At the same time, she successfully wrote novels and poetry… more than fifteen works were published. In 2024, it comes out The Forgotten Hostagesa biographical novel about the memorial legacy left by his in-laws, Rifka and Jacob Knobel. In a double narration which alternates the reconstructed past with the present and cinematic references, the story reveals one facet of Nazi persecution: locking up Anglo-Americans in camps in order to be able to negotiate.
The author, from her computer, testifies to being “ both the only witness to the existence of these camps and the only writer who took the responsibility of testifying to them. It is an original and major book which must therefore be brought to the attention of both an enlightened public or one curious about historical but unknown events.“.
This work published and launched by La Rencontre desauteurs francophones, an American publisher which distributes and promotes this book throughout the world thanks to a dynamic platform, was presented at the festivals of Miami, Mons, Wallonia, New Jersey, Ohio and , soon in New York. It is illustrated by documents inserted in the text and clearly required a lot of work.
You can order this book in all bookstores, or directly from the publisher, Rencontre des Auteurs Francophones.
