Sudden Courage
Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945
(Sprache: Englisch)
The incredible story of the young people - many only teenagers - who as members of the French Resistance waged a hidden war against Paris's Nazi occupiers and their collaborators.
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The incredible story of the young people - many only teenagers - who as members of the French Resistance waged a hidden war against Paris's Nazi occupiers and their collaborators.
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The author of the acclaimed When Paris Went Dark, longlisted for the National Book Award, returns to World War II once again to tell the incredible story of the youngest members of the French Resistance-many only teenagers-who waged a hidden war against the Nazi occupiers and their collaborators in Paris and across France.On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Most citizens adapted and many even allied themselves with the new fascist leadership. Yet others refused to capitulate; in answer to the ruthless violence, shortages, and curfews imposed by the Nazis, a resistance arose. Among this shadow army were Jews, immigrants, communists, workers, writers, police officers, shop owners, including many young people in their teens and twenties.
Ronald Rosbottom tells the riveting story of how those brave and untested youth went from learning about literature to learning the art of sabotage, fromfiguring out how to solve an equation to how to stealthily avoid patrols, from passing notes to stealing secrets-and even learning how to kill. The standard challenges of adolescence were amplified and distorted.
Sudden Courage brilliantly evokes this dark and uncertain period, from the beginning of the occupation until the last German left French soil. A chronicle of youthful sacrifice and courage in the face of evil, it is a story that holds relevance for our own time, when democratic nations are once again under threat from rising nativism and authoritarianism. Beyond that, it is a riveting investigation about what it means for a young person to come of age under unpredictable and violent circumstances.
Autoren-Porträt von Ronald C. Rosbottom
Rosbottom, Ronald CRonald C. Rosbottom is the Winifred L. Arms Professor in the Arts and Humanities and a professor of French, European Studies, and Architectural Studies at Amherst College. Previously he was Dean of the Faculty at Amherst; he is a Chevalier de l'Académie des Palmes Académiques. His previous book, When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944, was longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. He divides his time between Amherst, Massachusetts, and Paris.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ronald C. Rosbottom
- 2019, 336 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 16,4 x 24 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: HarperCollins US
- ISBN-10: 0062470027
- ISBN-13: 9780062470027
Sprache:
Englisch
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