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Missak Manouchian (1906–1944), poet, leader of the eponymous network as part of FTP-MOI; Robert Marjolin (1911–1986) Suzanne Masson (1901–1943) Marie Médard (1921–2013) Lucien Julien Meline (1901–1943) Jean-Pierre Melville (1917–1973), French film director; Pierre Mendès-France (1907–1982), French politician
The novel Villa Normandie by Kevin Doherty (Endeavour Press, 2015) features a female Resistance cell leader as the main character. A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead (Vintage, 2012) tells the story of women who were captured and sent on the only train to take women of the Resistance to the Nazi death camps. Moorehead was able to talk with ...
The following is a list of female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. SOE's objectives were to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe (and later, also in occupied Southeast Asia) against the Axis powers, and to aid local resistance movements.
Pages in category "Female resistance members of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 275 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "French women in World War II" ... out of 83 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. ... France Hamelin; Maryse Hilsz; J.
Unlike the andartes, who were resisting Axis rule in Greece and preferred a democratic decision-making progress, the maquis bands tended to be dominated by a charismatic leader, usually an older man who was not a réfractaire; a chef who was commonly a community leader; somebody who before the war had been a junior political or military leader ...
Marie-Madeleine Fourcade. Marie-Madeleine Fourcade (11 August 1909 – 20 July 1989) was the leader of the French Resistance network "Alliance", under the code name "Hérisson" ("Hedgehog") after the arrest of its former leader, Georges Loustaunau-Lacau (“Navarre”), during the German military administration in occupied France during World War II.
Pages in category "French military personnel of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 322 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .