Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945

The author of When Paris Went Dark returns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest members of
the French Resistance and their war against the German occupiers and their
collaborators

On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a
nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat
and foreign occupation. Many adapted to the situation—even allied themselves
with their new overlords. Yet amid increasing Nazi ruthlessness, shortages and
arbitrary curfews, a re...