Résistance
Subtitle: memoirs of occupied France
By: by Agnès Humbert ; translated by Barbara Mellor
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor/Paragon; CPI
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Bath?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9781408414712; 9781408414729
Subjects: Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945; Diaries; German Prisoners and prisons; Underground movements; War Underground movements; Large type books; French Personal narratives; History
Work titles: Notre guerre
Description: Agnès 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 organised resistance. Members of Humbert's group were betrayed to the Gestapo; Humbert herself was imprisoned. Here she describes her time in prison, her deportation to Germany, where for more than two years she endured a string of brutal labour camps, and the horror of discovering that seven of her friends were executed by firing squad.
Notes: Translated from the French.

Originally published: London: Bloomsbury, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from the French.