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Women in the Resistance - Margaret L. Rossiter
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"...A virtual manual on the workings of the French Resistance from 1940 to 1945, Women in the Resistance is filled with the details of organizing and leading escape lines, clandestinely gathering and transmitting military information, publishing and circulating underground newspapers, sabotaging targets, and fighting in partisan combat. The women who perform these feats—smart, courageous, strong, and dedicated—range in age from teenagers to older women with grandchildren..."
(K.B.-B., p. 245)