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Sudden Courage

E-BookEPUBePub WasserzeichenE-Book
326 Seiten
Englisch
Mariner Bookserschienen am21.05.2024
The author of When Paris Went Darkreturns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest members of the French Resistance and their war against the German occupiers and their collaboratorsOn June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Many adapted to the situationeven allied themselves with their new overlords. Yet amid increasing Nazi ruthlessness, shortages and arbitrary curfews, a resistance arosea shadow army of workers, intellectuals, shop owners, police officers, Jews, immigrants, and communists. Among this army were a remarkable number of adolescents and young men and women, it was estimated by one underground leader that four-fifths of the members of the resistance were under the age of thirty. Months earlier, they would have been spending their evenings studying for exams, sneaking out to dates, and finding their footing at first jobs. Now they learned the art of sabotage, the ways of disguise and deception, how to stealthily avoid patrols, steal secrets, and eliminate the enemysometimes violently.Nevertheless, in most histories of the French Resistance, the substantial contributions of the young have been minimized or, at worst, ignored. Sudden Courageremedies that amnesia. Amid heart-stopping accounts of subterfuge, narrow escapes, and deadly consequences, we meet blind Jacques Lusseyran, who created one of the most influential underground networks in Paris, Guy Mquet, whose execution at the hands of Germans became a cornerstone of rebellion, Maroussia Natchenko, a young communist uncannily adept at escaping Gestapo traps, Andr Kirschen, who at fifteen had to become an assassin, Anise Postel-Vinay, captured and sent to a concentration camp, and bands of other young rebels who chose to risk their lives for a better tomorrow. But Sudden Courageis more than an inspiring account of youthful daring and determination. It is also a riveting investigation of what it means to come of age under the threat of rising nativism and authoritarianismone with a deep bearing on our own time.mehr
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KlappentextThe author of When Paris Went Darkreturns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest members of the French Resistance and their war against the German occupiers and their collaboratorsOn June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Many adapted to the situationeven allied themselves with their new overlords. Yet amid increasing Nazi ruthlessness, shortages and arbitrary curfews, a resistance arosea shadow army of workers, intellectuals, shop owners, police officers, Jews, immigrants, and communists. Among this army were a remarkable number of adolescents and young men and women, it was estimated by one underground leader that four-fifths of the members of the resistance were under the age of thirty. Months earlier, they would have been spending their evenings studying for exams, sneaking out to dates, and finding their footing at first jobs. Now they learned the art of sabotage, the ways of disguise and deception, how to stealthily avoid patrols, steal secrets, and eliminate the enemysometimes violently.Nevertheless, in most histories of the French Resistance, the substantial contributions of the young have been minimized or, at worst, ignored. Sudden Courageremedies that amnesia. Amid heart-stopping accounts of subterfuge, narrow escapes, and deadly consequences, we meet blind Jacques Lusseyran, who created one of the most influential underground networks in Paris, Guy Mquet, whose execution at the hands of Germans became a cornerstone of rebellion, Maroussia Natchenko, a young communist uncannily adept at escaping Gestapo traps, Andr Kirschen, who at fifteen had to become an assassin, Anise Postel-Vinay, captured and sent to a concentration camp, and bands of other young rebels who chose to risk their lives for a better tomorrow. But Sudden Courageis more than an inspiring account of youthful daring and determination. It is also a riveting investigation of what it means to come of age under the threat of rising nativism and authoritarianismone with a deep bearing on our own time.
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9780062470058
ProduktartE-Book
EinbandartE-Book
FormatEPUB
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Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum21.05.2024
Seiten326 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Artikel-Nr.4207918
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Genre9200

Autor

Ronald C. Rosbottom is the Winifred L. Arms Professor in the Arts and Humanities and a professor of French, European Studies, and Architectural Studies at Amherst College. Previously he was Dean of the Faculty at Amherst; he is a Chevalier de l'Académie des Palmes Académiques. His previous book, When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944, was longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. He divides his time between Amherst, Massachusetts, and Paris.
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