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The best books on The French Resistance recommended by Jonathan Fenby. The historian and author chooses five books on de Gaulle and the Resistance. He says the British tried to veto de Gaulle’s famous 1940 speech from London calling on the French to stand up to German occupation
52 authors created a book list connected to the French Resistance, and here are their favorite French Resistance books.
Christophe Corbin shares the 5 best books on the French Resistance. Have you read Silence of the Sea / Le Silence de la Mer?
Robert Gildea’s penetrating history of resistance in France during World War II sweeps aside “the French Resistance” of a thousand clichés, showing that much more was at stake than freeing a single nation from Nazi tyranny.
This book recounts the journey of 230 French women who were arrested and imprisoned for participating in the French Resistance during the German occupation of France in WWII.
Books shelved as french-resistance: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein, The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason...
The French Resistance (French: La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis in rural areas) [2][3] who conducted guerrilla warfare and published underground ...
Good books about the French Resistance: novels. The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure—A reluctant hero in World War II. Mistress of the Ritz by Melanie Benjamin—Resistance, and collaboration, among the rich and famous of Paris. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah—A deeply affecting novel of the French Resistance
In French colonial Africa and the Near East, battle was joined between de Gaulle’s Free French and forces loyal to Vichy before they combined to liberate France. Based on a riveting reading of diaries, memoirs, letters, and interviews of contemporaries, Fighters in the Shadows.
With major themes of courage, self-sacrifice, betrayal, and struggle, this book shatters the illusion of a unified Resistance created by General de Gaulle, and brings to vivid life a true story of heroes and conflicts forgotten over the next half-century as the movement became a myth.