personal narratives, french

Michel Mockers shares his war story from France in 1940-1944.

Simone Arnold Liebster shares the story of her youth in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France during the World War II era, discussing her life on the family farm before the war, her persecution by the Nazis for refusing to denounce her faith as a Jehovah's Witness, and her attempts to rebuild her life after the war.

Recalling her years on Oleron, an island that was part of Hitler's Atlantic Wall fortifications, Carlisle describes the Occupation from its early days to the harsh later stages of food shortages and forced labor.

Recounts Chevrillon's experiences as the head of the Code Service in Paris, where sheand fellow Resistance workers served as the main link in communication between the Free French Government in London and the Provisional Government in France.

Translation of Bye bye Genevieve! A young French girl describes her personal experiences in France on D-Day during World War II when her family gave shelter and aid to American paratroopers.

A real-life Suite Fran?aise, this riveting diary by a key female member of the French Resistance in WWII is translated into English for the first time. Agn?s 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--very likely the first such group to fight back against the occupation. (In fact, their newsletter, R?sistance, gave the French Resistance its name.) In the throes of their struggle for freedom, the members of Humbert'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.--From publisher description.

Lucie Aubrac's account of her participation in the French Resistance during World War II.

Contains three works by pioneer aviator Saint-Exupery, including "Night Flight, " a fictional account of the early South American-European mail service; "Wind, Sand and Stars, " a memoir of the author's air service to North Africa"; and "Flight to Arras, " an account of the French fliers of World War II.