“Beside you, among you without you always knowing it, men are fighting and dying, the men of the underground fight for liberation. These men, shot, arrested, tortured, always driven from their homes, often cut off from their families, fighters all the more moving because they have no uniforms or standards, […] greet them. » (Pierre Brossolette)
As we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the defeat of Nazism, let us pay tribute to the 480,000 men and women, who, from London or France, often at the cost of their lives, made their ideal their weapons and fought courageously against the occupier and for liberation from the Nazi yoke.
They were fighters, politicians, liaison officers, soldiers, priests, writers… men whose names History may not have remembered and others who became heroes – Charles de Gaulle, Jean Moulin, Pierre Brossolette, Henri Frenay, Berty Albrecht… Of those who, in the underground of the maquis, took up arms, of those who hidden in an apartment used words and newspapers, of those who, in the movements, the networks, at the microphone of the BBC, on the battlefields and even, sometimes, in the concentration camps, imagined the France of tomorrow, this elegant and well-documented book traces the history of the Resistance…
Enriched with a hundred photographs, rare and fascinating documents and around twenty facsimiles, it tells the story of a founding political myth.
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