Description: _________________________________________Sub title in full reads...Lucie Aubrac: The French Resistance Heroine Who Outwitted the Gestapo This is the first American edition as new, being a review copy. 9.37 X 6.38 X 1.02 inches; 256 pages; Hard cover is black with blue metallic lettering on spine. . Illustrated with 8 b/w photographs and 4 in colour, including a map of free/occupied France. "In May 1943, a young Frenchwoman called Lucie Aubrac engineered the escape of her husband, Raymond, from the clutches of Klaus Barbie, the feared Gestapo chief later known as the "Butcher of Lyon." When Raymond was arrested again that June, Lucie mounted a second astonishing rescue, ambushing the prison van that was transporting him. As a founding member and leader of the important French Resistance group Liberation-Sud, Lucie served as a courier, arms carrier, and saboteur who engineered these and other escape plans on behalf of her husband and other Resistance fighters. Spirited out of France with Raymond by the RAF, Lucie arrived in London a heroine. For the postwar generation the couple embodied the spirit of "the real France": the one that resisted, and eventually expelled the Nazis." Notes; bibliography; Sold by an independent and solo ex-bookshop owner, with around 50 years of experience, who takes pride in listing and researching every volume. Someone who does not consider books as mere square objects with printing inside, fixed only on selling in high quantities as quickly as possible, but one who takes deep interest not only in the book itself, but also, where possible, its history. (No "maybes" or "may not contain"s)! I am open to sensible offers on all my listings, and I am also happy to combine postage on multiple orders - please enquire before ordering. NB. even 1 grm over 2kgs doubles the cost . Over 5kgs best in 2 packages (if possible), o/w via Courier.
Price: 11.1 GBP
Location: Sidmouth
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Non-Fiction Subject: History/Biography/War
Personalised: No
Year Printed: 2016
Modified Item: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Fiction Subject: N/A
Binding: Hardback
Original/Reproduction: Original
Region: France
Weight: 600gms
Illustrator: Photographs
Author: Sian Rees
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Character Family: None
Signed: No
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Place of Publication: Chicago
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
