Famous Stories of the Resistance

154 pp. "One of the most incredible movements that grew up in the Second World War was the Resistance: a movement composed of thousands of men and women willing to give their lives in the underground struggle against the enemy. The Resistance took many forms, from sabotage and armed attacks to the gathering of intelligence, from the training of Maquis units to the organization of escape lines, and there can be no doubt that its activities helped greatly to win the war. This book contains seventeen episodes which tell the story of this extraordinary movement, and of some of the individuals who found themselves in unique and sometimes horrific situations, often with pitifully inadequate equipment and little experience."