false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256138997m/6633425.jpg 3017519 9 <B>A real-life <I>Suite Française</I>, this riveting diary by a key female member of the French Resistance in WWII is translated into English for the first time.</B> Agnès Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Though she might well have weathered the oppressive regime, Humbert was stirred to action by the atrocities she witnessed. In an act of astonishing bravery, she joined forces with several colleagues to form an organized resistance&#8212;very likely the first such group to fight back against the occupation. (In fact, their newsletter, <I>Résistance</I>, gave the French Resistance its name.) In the throes of their struggle for freedom, the members of Humbert&#8217;s group were betrayed to the Gestapo; Humbert herself was imprisoned. In immediate, electrifying detail, Humbert describes her time in prison, her deportation to Germany, where for more than two years she endured a string of brutal labor camps, and the horror of discovering that seven of her friends were executed by a firing squad. But through the direst of conditions, and ill health in the labor camps, Humbert retains hope for herself, for her friends, and for humanity. Originally published in France in 1946, the book was soon forgotten and is now translated into English for the first time. <I>Résistance</I> is more than a firsthand account of wartime France: it is the work of a brave, witty, and forceful woman, a true believer who refused to go quietly. 3048084 book 1946 Resistance: A Frenchwoman's Journal of the War total:49|5:19|4:20|3:9|2:1|1:0| 49 204 218 26 5 0 false false Sun Sep 27 15:55:19 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 16:29:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 18:18:57 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 16:45:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 12:03:52 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 16:58:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 09:36:05 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 01:18:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 14 09:44:05 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 08:14:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Fri Sep 26 10:39:47 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 10:40:39 -0700 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/new...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 20:04:30 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 19:06:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 07:54:58 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 14 19:31:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 05 15:20:44 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 24 08:55:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 06 06:28:35 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 09:02:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Sep 01 02:22:55 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 21 06:17:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 17:17:24 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 17:24:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 04 09:19:41 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 09:25:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Feb 23 15:38:51 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 15:38:51 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 11:16:47 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 16:26:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jun 04 12:26:55 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 12:27:53 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 14 15:39:35 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 15:40:07 -0700 2009 goodreads.com giveaway]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 11:51:49 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 16:06:25 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 09:07:58 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 18:09:15 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 07:45:34 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 10:08:59 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6633425