Love in the Tempest of History: A French Resistance Story

by Aude Yung-de Prévaux

The daughter of French resistance fighters chronicles her parents' heroic adventures as anti-Nazi fighters during World War II and describes her own search for the truth about her remarkable parents... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743201949
• ISBN13: 9780743201940
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

A Literary Monument to Two Heros of the Resistance

Let's get a couple of things straight. 1) Little of the story has to do directly with the French Resistance.2) This is still a vital, interesting and perhaps even historically important work.Ms. Yung-de-Prevaux, in a notable work of journalistic digging, resurrected her deceased parents in a monument to their heroism during the war.Through her work, they live and breathe again as people, not dusty historic figures, but people with desires, wants, frustrations and faults, who, seeing their country overrun by barbarians, chose to fight and die together rather than submit to their conquest.Their actions in organizing and operating a major resistance information-gathering cell covering the Mediterranean coast, undoubtedly saved the lives of thousands of troops and helped with the eventual liberation of Europe.Tragically, Aude never new her parents except through her research, and equally tragically they were executed mere days from liberation.This book is the account of their lives, and, as such, is better documented for the period before the war--but then, so much of what was done by resistance and special forces has never and probably never will come to light, having been taken to the grave by those heroes who performed these actions.What we are left with, is a picture of these two very human people, their lives before the war and how these fairly ordinary extraordinary people came to make the choices they did to risk (and lose) everything for the sake of others.Like so many heroes, they died mostly unknown by and unappreciated by those for whom they died. Thanks to their daughter, their worth is now more publicly known.