Hitting and running
Eugen Weber, 10 June 1993
In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in Southern France, 1942-1944
by H.R. Kedward.
Oxford, 342 pp., £35, March 1993,0 19 821931 8 Show More
by H.R. Kedward.
Oxford, 342 pp., £35, March 1993,
Outwitting the Gestapo
by Lucie Aubrac, translated by Konrad Bieber and Betsy Wing.
Nebraska, 235 pp., $25, June 1993,0 8032 1029 9 Show More
by Lucie Aubrac, translated by Konrad Bieber and Betsy Wing.
Nebraska, 235 pp., $25, June 1993,
“... him. ‘Colonel Berger’, his nom de guerre, was a creation of the post-Liberation fighting. Kedward mentions the writer only once, as unveiling a monument on the plateau of Glières, in Haute-Savoie. The fact is that the maquis which Malraux tried to ‘co-ordinate’ when the spirit moved him sent this newcomer packing. Some resistants knew he had once ... ”
