SUDDEN COURAGE
Youth in France Confront the Germans from 1940-1945
On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation.  Most citizens adapted; many even allied themselves with the new fascist leadership. Yet others refused to capitulate and joined the French Resistance. But, this is not your typical war story. It’s a coming-of-age story during the war. Among this shadow army of Jews, immigrants, communists, workers, writers, police officers and shop owners who waged a hidden war against the Nazi occupiers and collaborators was a group of young people. Many were only teenagers; others were still in their twenties. In the blink of an eye, they went from figuring out equations to figuring out how to avoid patrols, from passing notes to stealing secrets, from studying literature to studying the art of sabotage. They were even learning how to kill.  Sudden Courage brilliantly chronicles youthful sacrifice and courage during this dark and uncertain period, from the beginning of the occupation until the last German left French soil.

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