Resistance: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France Book

â??You may think you've read stories like this before, yet hers is specialâ?¦Résistance was written by a woman of exceptional intelligence and courage. Her perceptions areâ?¦acute, honest and humane.â?â??Newsday Agnès Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Stirred to action by the atrocities she witnessed, she joined forces with several colleagues to form an organized resistanceâ??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 Humbertâ??s group were betrayed to the Gestapo; Humbert herself was imprisoned. I n immediate, electrifying detail, Humbert describes her resistance against the Nazis, her time in prison, and the horrors she endured in a string of German labor camps, always retainingâ??in spite of everythingâ??hope for herself, for her friends, and for humanity. Originally published in France in 1946, the book is now translated into English for the first time.Read More