 |  | | | Tereska Torres | 09 Jan 2008 | | |
The French Freedom Fighter on her days as a soldier in Britain
Nearly seventy years ago, Tereska Torres, a shy 19 year old French girl arrived in London, barely able to speak English but determined to fight for France. Tereska had enlisted as a soldier in Charles de Gaulle's Free French Forces and during her four and half years in Britain she wrote a daily account of her experiences - tales of love, homesickness and the Blitz. Her diary, Une Francaise Libre, has inexplicably only ever been published in French but a fictionalised account of the war, the novel Women's Barracks, was published in English and was at once condemned as depraved and immoral. In 2008 her books and all her war memorabilia will be the subject of a big exhibition at a Paris museum. But before her memories were carted off and catalogued, she talked them through with our Paris correspondent Emma Jane Kirby. | |
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