{"product_id":"9780062470041","title":"Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eRosbottom, Ronald C.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9\/1\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe author of \u003cem\u003eWhen Paris Went Dark\u003c\/em\u003e returns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest members of\u003cbr\u003ethe French Resistance and their war against the German occupiers and their\u003cbr\u003ecollaborators\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a\u003cbr\u003enearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat\u003cbr\u003eand foreign occupation. Many adapted to the situation—even allied themselves\u003cbr\u003ewith their new overlords. Yet amid increasing Nazi ruthlessness, shortages and\u003cbr\u003earbitrary curfews, a resistance arose—a shadow army of workers, intellectuals,\u003cbr\u003eshop owners, police officers, Jews, immigrants, and communists. Among this army\u003cbr\u003ewere a remarkable number of adolescents and young men and women; it was\u003cbr\u003eestimated by one underground leader that “four-fifths of the members of the\u003cbr\u003eresistance were under the age of thirty.” Months earlier, they would have been\u003cbr\u003espending their evenings studying for exams, sneaking out to dates, and finding\u003cbr\u003etheir footing at first jobs. Now they learned the art of sabotage, the ways of\u003cbr\u003edisguise and deception, how to stealthily avoid patrols, steal secrets, and\u003cbr\u003eeliminate the enemy—sometimes violently.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNevertheless, in most histories of the French\u003cbr\u003eResistance, the substantial contributions of the young have been minimized or,\u003cbr\u003eat worst, ignored. \u003cem\u003eSudden Courage\u003c\/em\u003e remedies that amnesia. Amid heart-stopping accounts of subterfuge,\u003cbr\u003enarrow escapes, and deadly consequences, we meet\u003cbr\u003eblind Jacques Lusseyran, who created one of the most influential underground\u003cbr\u003enetworks in Paris; Guy Môquet, whose execution at the hands of\u003cbr\u003eGermans became a cornerstone of rebellion; Maroussia Naïtchenko, a young\u003cbr\u003ecommunist uncannily adept at escaping Gestapo traps; André Kirschen, who at\u003cbr\u003efifteen had to become an assassin; Anise Postel-Vinay, captured and sent to a\u003cbr\u003econcentration camp; and bands of other young rebels who chose to risk their\u003cbr\u003elives for a better tomorrow. But \u003cem\u003eSudden Courage \u003c\/em\u003eis more than an inspiring account of youthful\u003cbr\u003edaring and determination. It is also a riveting investigation of what it means\u003cbr\u003eto come of age under the threat of rising nativism and authoritarianism—one\u003cbr\u003ewith a deep bearing on our own time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011329376511,"sku":"9780062470041","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780062470041_s600x595.jpg?v=1780334568","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780062470041","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}