Primary Sources: World War II: France

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.

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.

Translated from the French by Lily Emmet

Summaries and Important Selections from Statements on the Government of Maréchal Pétain and Pierre Laval

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

Translated by Konrad Bieber with the assistance of Betsy Wing
"A suspenseful rendering of Aubrac's experiences as a French Resistance fighter during WW II. This memoir owes its existence to the 1983 extradition to France of Klaus Barbie, the ``Butcher of Lyon'': In order to refute Barbie's defenders and former collaborators, Aubrac told her story publicly for the first time- -and it became a bestseller in France. " Kirkus Reviews

Compiled and annotated by Jean Daladier with Jean Daridan ; Translated by Arthur D. Greenspan
Daladier signed the Munich Pact and was later imprisoned by Germany during the war.

A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940
Translation of L'étrange défaite.
Bloch was later captured and killed by the Nazis for his participation in the French resistance.

Translation of: La douleur
Duras was a member of the French resistance during WWII.

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