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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue
53, 1996
For the Bookshelf
by William A. Douglass
Stolen Years by Maita Floyd is the autobiographical
account which documents the author’s late adolescent
years living under German occupation in the French Basque
Country. Maita was the daughter in the Branquet family,
proprietors of the Hotel de la Poste in St. Jean de Luz. The
hotel was requisitioned by the Germans as a rest and
recreation facility for its troops. The family continued to
occupy it for awhile, but ultimately moved to their nearby
country estate for the duration of the
war.
This highly personal account provides fascinating,
microcosmic details of daily life under the rules of the
occupiers. However, as its title suggests, it is the story
of an adolescent girl deprived of the carefree years of her
youth. There is also interesting insight into the inner
workings of an upper-class Basque family as seen through the
eyes of a headstrong daughter.
Stolen Years is available from:
Eskualdun Publishers
P.O. Box 50266
Phoenix, AZ 85076
updated address 2006:
10015 W. Royal Oak Dr. #310
Sun City, AZ 85351
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