A POLITE DESPERADO AND HIS NICE WIFE
A Historical Novel Culminating in a revised Battle of France

by

Bill Todd


1. Klaus

2. Marie-Claude

3. Hans

4. A Project

PART II: FRENCH INTERLUDE

5. Erich

6. Therese

7. Paul Giroud

8. An Outing in the Country

9. The Return of Klaus

10. Armand

11. General Brossard

12. The Tank Trap

13. Scandal

14. Sabotage

15. Gambling at Sea

16. Return to America

17. Return to Cincinnati

18. Building a Railway

19. A Kind of Education

20. The Arrival in Heissen

21. Climbing the Bureaucracy

22. The Troop Office

23. Heissen

24. The Cincinnati, Lebanon, and Northern

PART IV: WAR

25. Suresnes

26. A Dubious Victory

27. Peacetime in Hawaii

28. An Unplanned Contingency

29. The Home Front

30. Lebanon

31. At the Beach

32. At the Amusement Park

33. The Walnut Hills Grade

34. An English Translation of an Entry from the diary of Madame Marie-Claude Serraul34


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