{"product_id":"sudden-courage-youth-in-france-confront-the-germans-19401945-isbn-9780062470041","title":"Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe author of \u003cem\u003eWhen Paris Went Dark\u003c\/em\u003e returns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest members of\u003cbr\u003ethe French Resistance and their war against the German occupiers and their\u003cbr\u003ecollaborators\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a\u003cbr\u003enearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat\u003cbr\u003eand foreign occupation. Many adapted to the situation—even allied themselves\u003cbr\u003ewith their new overlords. Yet amid increasing Nazi ruthlessness, shortages and\u003cbr\u003earbitrary curfews, a resistance arose—a shadow army of workers, intellectuals,\u003cbr\u003eshop owners, police officers, Jews, immigrants, and communists. Among this army\u003cbr\u003ewere a remarkable number of adolescents and young men and women; it was\u003cbr\u003eestimated by one underground leader that “four-fifths of the members of the\u003cbr\u003eresistance were under the age of thirty.” Months earlier, they would have been\u003cbr\u003espending their evenings studying for exams, sneaking out to dates, and finding\u003cbr\u003etheir footing at first jobs. Now they learned the art of sabotage, the ways of\u003cbr\u003edisguise and deception, how to stealthily avoid patrols, steal secrets, and\u003cbr\u003eeliminate the enemy—sometimes violently.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNevertheless, in most histories of the French\u003cbr\u003eResistance, the substantial contributions of the young have been minimized or,\u003cbr\u003eat worst, ignored. \u003cem\u003eSudden Courage\u003c\/em\u003e remedies that amnesia. Amid heart-stopping accounts of subterfuge,\u003cbr\u003enarrow escapes, and deadly consequences, we meet\u003cbr\u003eblind Jacques Lusseyran, who created one of the most influential underground\u003cbr\u003enetworks in Paris; Guy Môquet, whose execution at the hands of\u003cbr\u003eGermans became a cornerstone of rebellion; Maroussia Naïtchenko, a young\u003cbr\u003ecommunist uncannily adept at escaping Gestapo traps; André Kirschen, who at\u003cbr\u003efifteen had to become an assassin; Anise Postel-Vinay, captured and sent to a\u003cbr\u003econcentration camp; and bands of other young rebels who chose to risk their\u003cbr\u003elives for a better tomorrow. But \u003cem\u003eSudden Courage \u003c\/em\u003eis more than an inspiring account of youthful\u003cbr\u003edaring and determination. It is also a riveting investigation of what it means\u003cbr\u003eto come of age under the threat of rising nativism and authoritarianism—one\u003cbr\u003ewith a deep bearing on our own time.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Active resistance to the Nazi occupation of France in 1940 to1944 often depended on young people. The adolescents among them brought special assets to dangerous actions and faced stresses particular to their age. Ronald Rosbottom explores these matters sensitively and vividly. . . .A thoughtful and stirring book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert O Paxton professor emeritus of history Columbia University and author of Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fine history that brings back to light the contributions of the younger, often forgotten resistance fighters.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A complicated and inspiring portrait of youthful resistants: their successes, their failures, their occasional inconsistency and their undoubted courage.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fine story-teller… has many inspirational tales to tell.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ronald Rosbottom masterfully explores the crucial role played by the young people of France, many still in their teens, in resisting the Nazis during World War II.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLynne Olson author of Madame Fourcade’s Secret War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An exceptional account about the French Resistance… Highly recommended for Francophiles and those interested in World War II.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Captivating… a moving chronicle of youthful courage and sacrifice.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Following up on his marvelous...\u003cem\u003eWhen Paris Went Dark, \u003c\/em\u003eRonald Rosbottom now recounts movingly the inspiring story of young people who resisted the Nazi occupation. With far-right forces rising again in Europe and the United States one can only hope that such sudden courage will not be needed again.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Taubman Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era and of Gorbachev: His Life and Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ron Rosbottom brings his demonstrated mastery of the German occupation of France, plus decades as a college professor, to vividly revise our understanding of the French resistance, and how dependent it was upon the energy and moral courage of very young women and men.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoseph J. 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