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The Cruel Victory - The French Resistance, D-Day and the Battle for the Vercors 1944 (Hardcover)
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The Cruel Victory - The French Resistance, D-Day and the Battle for the Vercors 1944 (Hardcover)
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From the bestselling and prize-winning author of 'A Brilliant
Little Operation' comes the long neglected D-Day story of the
largest action by the French Resistance during WWII, published to
coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings. In
early 1941, three separate groups of plotters - one military, one
political, one intellectual - began to organise and plan on and
around the forbidding mountainous plateau near Grenoble - the
Vercors. The aims of the groups were the same: to hasten the
departure of the German occupiers; to restore the pride of France
after its fall and the humiliations of the puppet Vichy government
which followed; and to build a new France. The overwhelming desire
to get rid of the Germans would unite them. Their different views
of the France they hoped for in the future would divide them. Over
the next three years these sparks of resistance would grow to
challenge the might of the hated German occupiers. As the Allied
troops stormed the D-Day beaches, the Vercors rose up to fight the
Nazis in a planned rearguard action. It was to prove not only the
largest Resistance action of the entire war but also, in the
severity of the German response, the most brutal crushing of
resistance forces in Western Europe. For the men and women of
Vercors, aided and abetted by the Free French forces of General de
Gaulle and SOE operatives from London, the events on the Vercors
took them on a journey from early idealism through hope,
misjudgement, folly, despair, sacrifice and slaughter to a kind of
cruel victory. The tragedy drew the attention of those at the
highest level of the Allied war effort and placed the Vercors deep
into the heart of the history of modern France in a way which
resonates still in the country's daily life and politics. Long
overlooked by English language histories, this magnificent book
sets the story in the context of D-Day, the muddle of politics and
many misjudgements of D-Day planners in both London and Algiers,
and - most importantly - it gives voice to the many Maquisards
fighters who fought to gain a voice in their country's future.
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