Édith Thomas: A Passion for Resistance

by Dorothy Kaufmann

Book Overview

Édith Thomas (1909-1970), a remarkable French woman of letters, was deeply involved in the traumatic upheavals of her time: most crucially the resistance to Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime, but also the Spanish Civil War and the Algerian War. During the occupation, she played an essential role in the struggle to counteract Nazi and Pétainist propaganda. She was the only woman in the Paris network of Resistance writers; they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801442230
• ISBN13: 9780801442230
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher