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Resistance: A Frenchwoman's Journal of the War by Barbara Mellor, Agnes Humbert (CD-Audio, 2008)

Agnes 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, Resistance, 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 w translated into English for the first time. Resistance is more than a firsthand account of wartime France; it is the work of a brave, witty, and forceful woman, a true believer who refused to go quietly.

Place of Publication
Old Saybrook, Ct
Spine
15mm
Running Time
720
Narrator(s)
Joyce Bean
Author Biography
Agnes Humbert was a distinguished art historian and a member of the Musee de l'Homme group in the French Resistance. She survived the war and died in Valmondois, France, in 1963. Barbara Mellor is a translator specializing in the fine and decorative arts, art history, architectural history, fashion, design, and all things French. During her researches into a Resistance ambush of a German armored column in Aveyron, she stumbled across the 1946 edition of Resistance. Joyce Bean is an accomplished audiobook narrator and director. In addition to being an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, she has been nominated multiple times for a prestigious Audie Award. Equally adept at narrating fiction and nonfiction, her titles include Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman, Blue Smoke by Nora Roberts, and several Jayne Ann Krentz novels. Joyce lives in West Michigan.
Out-Of-Print Date
14/04/2017
Date of Publication
02/09/2008
Subject
Biography: Historical, Political & Military
Imprint
Tantor Media, Inc
Edition Statement
Unabridged
Country of Publication
United States

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