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The Cost of Courage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781590516140)
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x"The result is a mix of history, biography and memoir which reads like a nerve-racking thriller." --The Guardian (US)
This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the French Resistance is told by an American writer who has known and admired the family for five decades In the autumn of 1943, André Boulloche became de Gaulle's military delegate in Paris, coordinating all the Resistance movements in the nine northern regions of France only to be betrayed by one of his associates, arrested, wounded by the Gestapo, and taken prisoner. His sisters carried on the fight without him until the end of the war. André survived three concentration camps and later became a prominent French politician who devoted the rest of his life to reconciliation of France and Germany. His parents and oldest brother were arrested and shipped off on the last train from Paris to Germany before the liberation, and died in the camps. Since then, silence has been the Boulloches's answer to dealing with the unbearable. This is the first time the family has cooperated with an author to recount their extraordinary ordeal.
Author: Charles Kaiser
ISBN-10: 1590516141
ISBN-13: 9781590516140
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 06/16/2015
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.00d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/13/2015
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2015
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2015 pg. 38
Library Journal 07/01/2015 pg. 94
Shelf Awareness 07/03/2015
BookPage 07/01/2015
New York Times Book Review 08/30/2015 pg. 30
This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the French Resistance is told by an American writer who has known and admired the family for five decades In the autumn of 1943, André Boulloche became de Gaulle's military delegate in Paris, coordinating all the Resistance movements in the nine northern regions of France only to be betrayed by one of his associates, arrested, wounded by the Gestapo, and taken prisoner. His sisters carried on the fight without him until the end of the war. André survived three concentration camps and later became a prominent French politician who devoted the rest of his life to reconciliation of France and Germany. His parents and oldest brother were arrested and shipped off on the last train from Paris to Germany before the liberation, and died in the camps. Since then, silence has been the Boulloches's answer to dealing with the unbearable. This is the first time the family has cooperated with an author to recount their extraordinary ordeal.
Author: Charles Kaiser
ISBN-10: 1590516141
ISBN-13: 9781590516140
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 06/16/2015
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.00d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/13/2015
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2015
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2015 pg. 38
Library Journal 07/01/2015 pg. 94
Shelf Awareness 07/03/2015
BookPage 07/01/2015
New York Times Book Review 08/30/2015 pg. 30
By Charles Kaiser
xCharles Kaiser is the author of 1968 in America (Grove/Atlantic), one of the most admired popular histories of the music, politics, and culture of the 1960s, and The Gay Metropolis (Houghton Mifflin and Grove), the landmark history of gay life in America, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Lambda Literary Award winner. He is is a former reporter for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and a former press critic for Newsweek. His articles and reviews have also appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, New York, Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Guardian (UK), and New Republic, among other publications. He grew up in Washington, D.C., Dakar, Senegal, London, England, and Windsor, Connecticut. Since 1968 he has always lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, except for two and a half years he spent in France to research this book.
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