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1) A train in winter: an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In January 1943, the Gestapo hunted down 230 women of the French Resistance and sent them to Auschwitz. This addition to World War II literature draws on interviews with the survivors and their families; German, French, and Polish archives; and documents held by World War II resistance organizations to tell their story of bravery, survival, and friendship.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges. Silent parachutes dotting the night sky." That is how one woman in Normandy in June of 1944 learned that the D-Day invasion was under way. Though they yearned for liberation, the French in Normandy nonetheless had to steel themselves for war, knowing that their homes and land and fellow citizens would have to bear the brunt...
Author
Series
Jeunes années volume 2
Publisher
Marion Boyars
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Green tells of his years as an ambulance driver during World War I, first near Verdun, then north of Venice.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©1995
Language
English
Description
"In March 1942, French police arrested Charlotte Delbo and her husband, the resistance leader Georges Dudach, on a charge of distributing anti-German leaflets in Paris. The French turned them over to the Gestapo, who imprisoned them. Dudach was executed by firing squad in May; Delbo remained in prison until January 1943, when she was deported to Auschwitz and then to Ravensbruck, where she remained until the end of the war. This book - Delbo's profoundly...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942, the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia. However, he quickly finds that for the foot soldier the glory of military success hides a much harsher reality of hunger, fatigue, and constant deprivation. Posted to the elite Grosse Deutschland division, with its sadistic instructors who shoot down those who fail to make the grade, he enters a violent and remorseless...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A real-life Suite Franaise, this riveting diary by a key female member of the French Resistance in WWII is translated into English for the first time. Agns Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Though she might well have weathered the oppressive regime, Humbert was stirred to action by the atrocities she witnessed. In an act of astonishing bravery, she joined forces with several colleagues to form an organized...
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