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Résistance memoirs of occupied France

A diary by a key member of the French Resistance during the German occupation of 1940 recounts her group's betrayal to the Gestapo, her imprisonment and deportation to Germany, and the brutal treatment she and her friends endured in labor camps.

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  • "A real-life Suite Française, this riveting diary by a key female member of the French Resistance in WWII is translated into English for the first time. 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 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. In immediate, electrifying detail, Humbert describes her time in prison, her deportation to Germany, where for more than two years she endured a string of brutal labor camps, and the horror of discovering that seven of her friends were executed by a firing squad. But through the direst of conditions, and ill health in the labor camps, Humbert retains hope for herself, for her friends, and for humanity. Originally published in France in 1946, the book was soon forgotten and is now translated into English for the first time.--From publisher description."
  • ""As the grip of the German Occupation tightened on Paris in the summer of 1940, Agnes Humbert, a respected art historian, took a leap of blind faith and reckless courage." -- BOOK JACKET."
  • "A diary by a key member of the French Resistance during the German occupation of 1940 recounts her group's betrayal to the Gestapo, her imprisonment and deportation to Germany, and the brutal treatment she and her friends endured in labor camps."
  • "A diary by a key member of the French Resistance during the German occupation of 1940 recounts her group's betrayal to the Gestapo, her imprisonment and deportation to Germany, and the brutal treatment she and her friends endured in labor camps."@en
  • "A real-life Suite Française, this riveting diary by a key female member of the French Resistance in WWII is translated into English for the first time. 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 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. In immediate, electrifying detail, Humbert describes her time in prison, her deportation to Germany, where for more than two years she endured a string of brutal labor camps, and the horror of discovering that seven of her friends were executed by a firing squad. But through the direst of conditions, and ill health in the labor camps, Humbert retains hope for herself, for her friends, and for humanity. Originally published in France in 1946, the book was soon forgotten and is now translated into English for the first time."

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  • "Diaries"@en
  • "Diaries"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
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  • "Resistência : a história de uma mulher que desafiou Hitler"
  • "Resistance"
  • "Résistance memoirs of occupied France"@en
  • "Resistência : a história de uma mulher gue desafiou Hitler"
  • "Resistance : memoirs of occupied France"@en
  • "Resistance : memoirs of occupied France"
  • "Notre guerre"
  • "Resistance : războiul nostru"
  • "Résistance : memoirs of occupied France"@en
  • "Résistance : memoirs of occupied France"
  • "Résistance : a woman's journal of struggle and defiance in occupied France"
  • "Resistance : a woman's journal of struggle and defiance in occupied France"@en
  • "Resistance: Memoirs Of Occupied France"@en
  • "Resistance a woman's journal of struggle and defiance in occupied France"
  • "Modstand : en fransk kvindes erindringer fra krigen"@da
  • "Notre Guerre"
  • "Notre guerre : [souvenirs de résistance]"
  • "Resistance memoirs of occupied France"@en
  • "Resistência: a história de uma mulher que desafiou Hitler"@pt

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