Résistance: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France

By: Barbara Mellor and Agnes Humbert

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Synopsis: Agnès Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Stirred to action by the atrocities she witnessed, she joined forces with several colleagues to form an organized resistance-very likely the first such group to fight back against the occupation. (In fact, their newsletter, Résistance, gave the French Resistance its name.) In the throes of their struggle for freedom, the members of Humbert's group were betrayed to the Gestapo; Humbert herself was imprisoned. I n immediate, electrifying detail, Humbert describes her resistance against the Nazis, her time in prison, and the horrors she endured in a string of German labor camps, always retaining-in spite of everything-hope for herself, for her friends, and for humanity. Originally published in France in 1946, the book is now translated into English for the first time.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 384 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781608192458
Related ISBNs:: 9781596916364
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Publishing
Date of Addition:: 03/06/21
Copyrighted By:: Agnes Humbert, Barbara Mellor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.