Author: Humbert, Agnès (trans. and notes by Barbara Mellor),
Title: RÉSISTANCE - Memoirs of Occupied France (Notre Guerre).
Description: Bloomsbury, London, ND (circa 2010), reprint, xii, 372pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., cream cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, first published in French in 1946 and not in English until 2008, the author was a respected art historian at the National Museum of the Arts in Paris in 1940 and, with colleagues from the Museum of Man, helped to form one of the first organised resistance groups against the German occupation until in 1941 she and others were betrayed to the Gestapo by a Vichy infiltrator, seven of the men being subsequently shot and the women deported to Germany as slave workers, her journal of events record their indomitable spirit and sacrifice, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 france paris musée de l'homme national des arts occupation resistance pow


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