ROUGEYRON Andre

Agents for escape: inside the French Resistance 1939-1945 - Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1996 - 189p.

Originally published 1947. Andre Rougeyron's chronicle of the years spent rescuing downed Allied airmen in France and consequently enduring German labor camps remains focused throughout on others. A myriad of individuals - both named and unnamed - and their sufferings and triumphs small and large suffuse his story.
His portrait of Normandy under occupation and his descriptions of life and death in the labor camps add important new information to current understanding of how French resisters and the camps operated. Equally significant and also fascinating is his evocation of people from diverse backgrounds brought together under unbearably trying circumstances.

0807120197 (hbk.)


ANDRE ROUGEYRON
SECOND WORLD WAR
LABOUR CAMPS
NORMANDY OCCUPATION
FRENCH RESISTANCE