"Written during the years of France's occupation by the Nazis, Jean Giono's Occupation Journal reveals the inner workings of one of France's great literary minds during the country's darkest hour. A renowned writer and committed pacifist throughout the 1930s and 1940s - a conviction that resulted in his imprisonment before and after the Occupation - Giono spent the war in the town of Manosque in Provence, where he wrote, corresponded with other writers,...

"Autobiography addressing the author's childhood experience of inner spiritual vision after becoming blind as a boy, his forming a boys' resistance group in occupied Paris at age seventeen (which later merged with Défense de la France), and his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp"--

"They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera; a midwife; a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newspapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The youngest was a schoolgirl of sixteen, who scrawled 'V' (for victory) on the walls of her lycée; the eldest, a farmer's wife in her sixties who harbored escaped...

Un des très bons romans inspirés par la dernière guerre à partir d'une expérience de cinq années de captivité à quoi fait allusion le titre. Prix Concourt 1946.

A collection of six texts by Marguerite Duras published in 1985. Two texts are invented: L'ortie brisée:184[1] and Aurélia Paris. The remaining four texts are based on lived experience. In La Douleur, her husband becomes Robert L. and others also retain the names used as resistants. Monsieur X. dit ici Pierre Rabier, 86-131 recounts her association with the man who arrested her husband (and his name is changed to protect his wife and child). In...