Genevieve Duboscq (9 April 1933 – 28 February 2018 in Chémeré-le-Roi) was a French author who wrote the best selling ''My Longest Night – A twelve-year-old heroine's stirring account of

D-Day The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as ...

and after''. It was originally published in French under the title ''Bye bye, Genevieve!'' She received the

Legion of Honor The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and civil. Currently consisting of five classes, it was ...

from the French Government and she and her family received America's Guard of Honor in recognition of the assistance that she and her family gave the US

82nd Airborne Division The 82nd Airborne Division is an Airborne forces, airborne infantry division (military), division of the United States Army specializing in Paratrooper, parachute assault operations into hostile areasSof, Eric"82nd Airborne Division" ''Spec Ops ...

during the invasion of France in 1944 by the Allies.

References

Bibliography

* ''My Longest Night – A twelve-year-old heroine's stirring account of D-Day and after'', Genevieve Duboscq, Editions Random House, 1981. 1931 births 2018 deaths French memoirists Recipients of the Legion of Honour 20th-century French women writers {{France-nonfiction-writer-stub