The Cost of Courage
A History, Biography, Nonfiction book. (If I want, when I want), Christiane campaigned for the legalization of both....
This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the French Resistance is told by an American writer who has known and admired the family for five decades In the autumn of 1943, André Boulloche became de Gaulle’s military delegate in Paris, coordinating all the Resistance movements in the nine northern regions of France only to be betrayed by one of his associates, arrested, wounded by the Gestapo, and taken prisoner. His sisters carried on the fight without him until the end of the war. André survived three concentration camps and later became a prominent French politician who devoted the rest of his life to reconciliation of France and Germany. His parents and oldest brother were arrested and shipped off on the last train from Paris to Germany before the liberation, and died in the camps. Since then, silence has been the Boulloches’s answer to dealing with the unbearable. This is the first time the family has cooperated with an author to recount their extraordinary ordeal.
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If you carry a weapon, it is always to kill. Do not think it is to defend yourself. If you draw your weapon, never get closer than three meters to the person you want to kill, Charles Kaiser, The Cost of Courage // eight hundred small boats had loaded 338,000 men into larger ships during the legendary evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, including 500 French officers and 18,000 French sailors, to prevent them from being captured or killed by the Germans. Charles Kaiser, The Cost of Courage // that the Rhineland should be occupied by an international force until the dispute with Hitler can be resolved, the Charles Kaiser, The Cost of Courage //
Well that was a big ol' disappointment. I was hoping for an engaging narrative of life as a French Resistance fighter during WWII and this fell far from the mark. I wanted to hear about the hardships and underground tactics, the struggle of the people and their sacrifice. I got a little of that, but mostly I got a whole lot about a... This is probably 3 1/2*.Moving tale of one young man in France joining the Resistance. He had a brother who tried to live a normal life. And he hadn't involved his parents or sisters in his work. However, his sisters decided for involvement on their own. However, he was betrayed and was injured. Determined to escape, despite his injuries.... Felt I was misled in what to expect and was disappointed. I felt there should have been more focus on the resistance activities of the Boulloches, especially since Christiane's story is now available.
