When Joseph Joffo was ten years old, his father gave him and his brother fifty francs and instructions to flee Nazi-occupied Paris and, somehow, get to the south where France was free. Previously out of print, this book is a captivating and memorable story; readers will instinctively find themselves rooting for these children caught in the whirlwind of World War II.

A Bag of Marbles

Biographies & Memoirs

Joffo, Joseph

Historical

University of Chicago Press

Anna's Diary

Ballantine Books

Two Jewish boys in France begin an odyssey of pain and terror when their father sends them off to the Unoccupied Zone with the warning that they must never admit they are Jews

A Bag of Marbles (English and French Edition)

Houghton/Mifflin

The full French text is accompanied by vocabulary explanations. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.

Un Sac de Billes (TWENTIETH CENTURY TEXTS)

Routledge

History

Military

BANTAM BOOKS

When Joseph Joffo was ten years old, his father gave him and his brother fifty francs and instructions to flee Nazi-occupied Paris and, somehow, get to the south where France was free. Previously out of print, this book is a captivating and memorable story; readers will instinctively find themselves rooting for these children caught in the whirlwind of World War II.

A bag of marbles

Europe

G.K. Hall

Un Sac de Billes (Routledge Foreign Literature Classics)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

In 1941 in occupied Paris, brothers Maurice and Joseph play a last game of marbles before running home to their father’s barbershop. This is the day that will change their lives forever. With the German occupation threatening their family's safety, the boys' parents decide Maurice and Joseph must disguise themselves and flee to their older brothers in the free zone. Surviving the long journey will take every scrap of ingenuity and courage they can muster. And if they hope to elude the Nazis, they must never, under any circumstances, admit to being Jewish. The boys travel by train, by ferry, and on foot, facing threats from strangers and receiving help from unexpected quarters. Along the way they must adapt to the unfamiliar world beyond their city―and find a way to be true to themselves even as they conceal their identities. Based on an autobiographical novel by Joseph Joffo and adapted with the author’s input, this true story offers a harrowing but inspiring glimpse of a childhood cut short.

A Bag of Marbles: The Graphic Novel

Children's Books

Biographies

Graphic Universe ™

Un sac de billes (French Edition)

Literary

Hachette Jeunesse

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