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“I suppose the best way to look at it is just to consider intellectual exchange as a form of conversation,” Assistant Professor of History T. Robert Travers said. In December, Travers plans to host an Indian-food catered brunch at his home for his...
Just before her 30th birthday, the war broke out. Eager for adventure, Travers signed up as a volunteer for Charles de Gaulle's Resistance army and shipped off to Africa and the Middle East where she joined up with the Legion and became the driver for Colonel Marie-Pierre Koenig...
The book's finest storytelling occurs in the vivid descriptions of Bir Hakeim. Vastly superior in manpower and artillery, Rommel predicted that it would take him 15 minutes to crush the 3,700 men stationed there. Instead, combat raged for a bloody 15 days, the Legion holding out despite waning...
At the end of the war Travers returned to Paris, where it became clear that her relationship with Koenig would have to end. Brokenhearted, she decided to officially apply for enlistment in the Legion, breaking a 144-year-old rule banning women from its ranks. Travers then left for Indochina...
Travers remained loyal to him until the end, spurning book deals for decades until her husband, Koenig and his wife had died. Travers waited 56 years to tell her story; it was worth the wait.