{"product_id":"the-art-of-resistance-my-four-years-in-the-french-underground-a-memoir-isbn-9780062845719","title":"The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew’s flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground.” —\u003cem\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn American Library in Paris Book Award \"Coups de Coeur\" Selection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Art of Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eis unlike any World War II memoir before it. Its author, Justus Rosenberg, has\u003cbr\u003espent the past seventy years teaching the classics of literature to American\u003cbr\u003ecollege students. Hidden within him, however, was a remarkable true story of\u003cbr\u003ewartime courage and romance worthy of a great novel. Here is Professor\u003cbr\u003eRosenberg’s elegant and gripping chronicle of his youth in Nazi-occupied\u003cbr\u003eEurope, when he risked everything to stand against evil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1937, after witnessing a\u003cbr\u003eviolent Nazi mob in his hometown of Danzig, a majority German city on the\u003cbr\u003eBaltic Sea, sixteen-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent by his Jewish parents to\u003cbr\u003eParis to finish his education in safety. Three years later, the Nazis came\u003cbr\u003eagain, as France fell to the Germans. Alone and in danger, Justus fled Paris,\u003cbr\u003eheading south. A chance meeting led him to Varian Fry, an American journalist\u003cbr\u003ein Marseille who led a clandestine network helping thousands of men and\u003cbr\u003ewomen—including many legendary artists and intellectuals, among them Hannah\u003cbr\u003eArendt, Marc Chagall, Andre Breton, and Max Ernst—escape the Nazis. With his intimate\u003cbr\u003eunderstanding of French and German culture, and fluency in several languages,\u003cbr\u003eincluding English, Justus became an invaluable member of Fry’s operation as a\u003cbr\u003espy and scout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter\u003cbr\u003ethe Vichy government expelled Fry from France, Justus worked in Grenoble,\u003cbr\u003erecruiting young men and women for the Underground Army. For the next four\u003cbr\u003eyears, he would be an essential component of the Resistance, relying on his\u003cbr\u003ewits and skills to survive several close calls with death. Once, he found\u003cbr\u003ehimself in a Nazi internment camp, with his next stop Auschwitz—and yet Justus\u003cbr\u003efound an ingenious way to escape. He two years during the war gathering\u003cbr\u003eintelligence, surveying German installations and troop movements on the\u003cbr\u003eMediterranean. Then, after the allied invasion at Normandy in 1944, Justus became\u003cbr\u003ea guerrilla fighter, participating in and leading commando raids to disrupt the\u003cbr\u003eGerman retreat across France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the Second World War, Justus emigrated to\u003cbr\u003eAmerica, and built a new life. For the past fifty years, he has taught\u003cbr\u003eliterature at Bard College, shaping the inner lives of generations of students.\u003cbr\u003eNow he adds his own story to the library of great coming-of-age memoirs: \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful saga\u003cbr\u003eof bravery and defiance, a true-life spy thriller touched throughout by a\u003cbr\u003eprofessor’s wisdom. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Gripping. … Fearless. … Recalls imprisonments, escapes from confinement, and successful missions against the Nazis. … A welcome addition to the World War II memoir shelf.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews, STARRED Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rosenberg provides a thrilling account of gut-wrenching wartime experiences. … Highly recommended.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal, STARRED Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rosenberg, professor emeritus of literature at Bard College, recounts his remarkable journey from young Polish-Jewish student to daring French underground freedom fighter in this powerful debut memoir. … Rosenberg, a modest narrator, nevertheless writes thrillingly of his life—of participating in reconnaissance and guerrilla attacks; joining the 636th Tank Destroyer Battalion as interpreter and scout; and serving as supply officer for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration—all while dodging injury, imprisonment, and death. Rosenberg’s memoir has all the suspense of a tense spy thriller.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew’s flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The very existence of \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Resistance \u003c\/em\u003eis its most remarkable feature. But the story, too, is a good one, recounted with astonishing lucidity. It’s a picaresque tale of a teenager who survives assorted perils by dint of luck, courage and his intellectual gifts, encountering various famous people along the way.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rosenberg is a natural raconteur, with a pleasing conversational style. ... What shines through his engaging book is his evident desire to be helpful and responsible and his acute consciousness of how extraordinarily lucky he was.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow Large Print","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888954470629,"sku":"NP9780062845719","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062845719.jpg?v=1730230174","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-art-of-resistance-my-four-years-in-the-french-underground-a-memoir-isbn-9780062845719","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}