Escape from France to Sweden - The Wennberg Family

This is the story of my British grandmother and Swedish grandfather, my seven-year-old father Douglas, and their escape from occupied France. My grandfather was Swedish, but his mother was French. My grandmother was born in Cardiff. She was 'into' horses, and sold some, (to people such as Buffalo Bill!) so my grandparents and my father lived in France, in Brittany, near St Malo. They spent winters in Monte Carlo. They were living in France at the time of the German invasion in 1940. My father was then seven. Grandmother always kept a diary - she used her diaries and the material recorded for t... Mehr ...