American Heroine in the French Resistance - The Diary and Memoir of Virginia D''albert-Lake

Informationen zum Autor Judy Barrett Litoff's books include We're in This War Too: World War II Letters from American Women in Uniform and, from Fordham, Fighting Fascism in Europe: The World War II Letters of an American Veteran of the Spanish Civil War . She is Professor of History at Bryant University. Klappentext This fascinating book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American woman's heroism in the French Resistance. Virginia Roush fell in love with Philippe d'Albert-Lake during a visit to France in 1936; they married soon after. In 1943, they both joined the Resistance, where Virginia put her life in jeopardy as she sheltered downed airmen and later survived a Nazi prison camp. After the war, she stayed in France with Philippe, and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur and the Medal of Honor. She died in 1997.Judy Barrett Litoff brings together two rare documents-Virginia's diary of wartime France until her capture in 1944 and her prison memoir written immediately after the war. Masterfully edited, they convey the compassion and toughness of a nearly forgotten heroine as they provide an invaluable record of the workings of the Resistance by one of the very few American women who participated in it.This fascinating book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American woman's heroism in the French Resistance.

Product details

• Authors: Judy Barrett Litoff, Judy Barrett (EDT) Litoff
• Assisted by: Judy Barrett Litoff (Editor)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.03.2008
• EAN: 9780823225828
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-2582-8
• No. of pages: 322
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension; World War II: The Global, Huma; World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension; World War II: The Global, Huma
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Frankreich, Biografien: allgemein, Europäische Geschichte, Zweiter Weltkrieg - Periode (1939 bis 1945), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Europe / France, Biography / Autobiography