Agents for Escape: Inside the French Resistance, 1939-45 - Hardcover

Rougeyron, Andre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807120197 ISBN 13: 9780807120194

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, 1996

Synopsis

"The only merit of this book - and I insist on it - is that it is true, true from beginning to end. And this, you see, is definitely something!" So writes Andre Rougeyron in the Preface of his memoir, displaying a hint of the passion that undoubtedly accounted for his heroism in France and Germany during World War II - and displaying too his own modest self-regard. His chronicle of the years spent rescuing downed Allied airmen in France and consequently enduring German labor camps remains focused throughout on others. A myriad of individuals - both named and unnamed - and their sufferings and triumphs small and large suffuse his story.
His portrait of Normandy under occupation and his descriptions of life and death in the labor camps add important new information to current understanding of how French resisters and the camps operated. Equally significant and also fascinating is his evocation of people from diverse backgrounds brought together under unbearably trying circumstances.

Edition details

• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807120197
• ISBN 13: 9780807120194
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248