Outwitting the Gestapo

Name: Outwitting the Gestapo
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ISBN: 9780803259232

ISBN-10: 0803259239

ISBN-13: 9780803259232

Edition: 1994

Authors: Lucie Aubrac, Konrad Bieber, Betsy Wing, Margaret Collins Weitz

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Lucie Aubrac (1912-2007), of Catholic and peasant background, was teaching history in a Lyon girls' school and newly married to Raymond, a Jewish engineer, when World War II broke out and divided France. The couple, living in the Vichy zone, soon joined the Resistance movement in opposition to the Nazis and their collaborators.Outwitting the Gestapois Lucie's harrowing account of her participation in the Resistance: of the months when, though pregnant, she planned and took part in raids to free comrades—including her husband, under Nazi death sentence—from the prisons of Klaus Barbie, the infamousButcher of Lyon. Her book is also the basis for the 1997 French movie,Lucie Aubrac, which was…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 11/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 241
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Betsy Wing is a writer and translator whose fiction collection Look Out for Hydrophobia appeared in 1991. She is the translator of Western and The Origin of Man by Christine Montalbetti, as well as works by Assia Djebar, Paule Constant, and ï¿½douard Glissant.



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