Cynthia D. Bertelsen's Gherkins & Tomatoes

Cynthia D. Bertelsen’s Books Now Available on Kindle Unlimited!!! All of my books (see sidebar on this site) are now available on Kindle Unlimited, except for Mushroom: A Global History. Please...

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Pondering À Paris Sous la Botte des Nazis (1944) The mailperson stuffed the book into my tiny mailbox with the same thrust they used for catalogs and flyers. It was so tightly embedded that I ha...

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In victory, you deserve Champagne; in defeat, you need it. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader Champagne! The beverage of love. And of sorrow, too. I remember my first glass of champagne...

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In appearance, it resembled a cheap mimeographed syllabus from a university course in the 1950s or 1960s. But it was anything but. In September 1940, close to six months after Adolf Hitler’s We...

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Entering into a Dreamscape of Words “Paris, as I have said, is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers …” ~ Julian Green, Paris, p. 59 Who? Julian...

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