LibGuides: Primary Sources: World War II: France

Book Sources: France - WWII

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
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Agents for Escape by André Rougeyron
Call Number: Online - EBSCO

Inside the French Resistance, 1939-1945

Also in print D802.F8 R6213 1996
"Rougeyron, an auto engineer living in Normandy, risked his life throughout the war rescuing downed Allied airmen, supplying them with clothes and identity papers and launching them down the underground escape pipeline." Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground : A Memoir by Justus Rosenberg
Call Number: D802.F8 R5925 2020

ISBN: 0062742191

99-year-old literature professor Justus Rosenberg escaped the Holocaust and spent four daring years in the French Underground during World War II. Now he finally writes his own unforgettable epic.
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
France during the German Occupation, 1940-1944 by René de Chambrun
ISBN: 0817983724
The French Yellow Book: Diplomatic Documents (1938-1939) by France. Ministère des affaires étrangères
Call Number: D735 .F7 1940

Papers relative to the events and negotiations which preceded the opening of hostilities between Germany on the one hand, and Poland, Great Britain and France on the other
La Résistance expliquée à mes petits-enfants by Lucie Aubrac
ISBN: 2020365715
Liebling's War: World War II Dispatches of A.J. Liebling by James Barbour (Editor); Gary Scharnhorst (Editor); Fred B. Warner (Editor); A. J. Liebling
Call Number: D811.5 .L519 2010

ISBN: 9780826349057
Outwitting the Gestapo by Lucie Aubrac
ISBN: 0803259239
Prison Journal, 1940-1945 by Edouard Daladier; Arthur Greenspan (Translator)
ISBN: 0813319056
The Resistance 1940: An Anthology of Writings from the French Underground by Charles B. Potter (Editor)
Call Number: D802.F8 R3895 2016

ISBN: 0807163929
Strange Defeat; A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940 by Marc Bloch
The War: A Memoir by Marguerite Duras
Call Number: PQ2607.U8245 Z46413 1986

ISBN: 0394552369

Translation of: La douleur
Duras was a member of the French resistance during WWII.
Wartime Notebooks: France, 1940-1944 by Andrzej Bobkowski; Grazyna Drabik (Translator); Laura Engelstein (Translator)
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central

ISBN: 9780300190045
Wartime Writings: 1943-1949 by Marguerite Duras
Call Number: PQ2607.U8245 Z4613 2008

ISBN: 9781595582003

Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale
Duras was a member of the French resistance during WWII.

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