{"product_id":"9780062845719","title":"The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir","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=\"\"\u003eRosenberg, Justus\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\u003eWilliam Morrow Large Print\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\u003e1\/28\/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\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew’s flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground.” —\u003cem\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn American Library in Paris Book Award \"Coups de Coeur\" Selection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Art of Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eis unlike any World War II memoir before it. Its author, Justus Rosenberg, has\u003cbr\u003espent the past seventy years teaching the classics of literature to American\u003cbr\u003ecollege students. Hidden within him, however, was a remarkable true story of\u003cbr\u003ewartime courage and romance worthy of a great novel. Here is Professor\u003cbr\u003eRosenberg’s elegant and gripping chronicle of his youth in Nazi-occupied\u003cbr\u003eEurope, when he risked everything to stand against evil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1937, after witnessing a\u003cbr\u003eviolent Nazi mob in his hometown of Danzig, a majority German city on the\u003cbr\u003eBaltic Sea, sixteen-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent by his Jewish parents to\u003cbr\u003eParis to finish his education in safety. Three years later, the Nazis came\u003cbr\u003eagain, as France fell to the Germans. Alone and in danger, Justus fled Paris,\u003cbr\u003eheading south. A chance meeting led him to Varian Fry, an American journalist\u003cbr\u003ein Marseille who led a clandestine network helping thousands of men and\u003cbr\u003ewomen—including many legendary artists and intellectuals, among them Hannah\u003cbr\u003eArendt, Marc Chagall, Andre Breton, and Max Ernst—escape the Nazis. With his intimate\u003cbr\u003eunderstanding of French and German culture, and fluency in several languages,\u003cbr\u003eincluding English, Justus became an invaluable member of Fry’s operation as a\u003cbr\u003espy and scout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter\u003cbr\u003ethe Vichy government expelled Fry from France, Justus worked in Grenoble,\u003cbr\u003erecruiting young men and women for the Underground Army. For the next four\u003cbr\u003eyears, he would be an essential component of the Resistance, relying on his\u003cbr\u003ewits and skills to survive several close calls with death. Once, he found\u003cbr\u003ehimself in a Nazi internment camp, with his next stop Auschwitz—and yet Justus\u003cbr\u003efound an ingenious way to escape. He two years during the war gathering\u003cbr\u003eintelligence, surveying German installations and troop movements on the\u003cbr\u003eMediterranean. Then, after the allied invasion at Normandy in 1944, Justus became\u003cbr\u003ea guerrilla fighter, participating in and leading commando raids to disrupt the\u003cbr\u003eGerman retreat across France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the Second World War, Justus emigrated to\u003cbr\u003eAmerica, and built a new life. For the past fifty years, he has taught\u003cbr\u003eliterature at Bard College, shaping the inner lives of generations of students.\u003cbr\u003eNow he adds his own story to the library of great coming-of-age memoirs: \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful saga\u003cbr\u003eof bravery and defiance, a true-life spy thriller touched throughout by a\u003cbr\u003eprofessor’s wisdom. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow Large Print","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46810500366591,"sku":"9780062845719","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780062845719_s600x595.jpg?v=1775580241","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780062845719","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}