What do I know this? the resistance in France during World War II is quite interesting. It describes the origins, course, the main features, the big names ... It also reveals the complexity, parties, movements, abounding networks, with their various interrelations, often for assistance, sometimes competition. Do not deny it results in some reading difficulty that does not help the use of acronyms - although obviously included in an index - and the evocation of multiple characters. Are not uncommon kind of phrases: "Finally CFLN the order of 1 February 1944 brings unified AS, FTP and ORA in the FFI (...). At the same time, NRC institutes a national HQ of the FFI (EM-FFI) based in Paris under the authority of COMAC "(p.85). However, the book focuses on a number of important features of the French resistance: - The fact that part of it, De Gaulle primarily combines the outset the political message to the resistance to the enemy, - Reverse the fact that until the end of 1941, a significant fraction of them, "combines patriotic hostility to Germany and benevolence or sympathy for the Vichy regime ', it narrows from the (p. 35) fall of 1941 to make then possible unification - The attitude of the PCF and the resistance forces resulting (National Front - nothing to do with the other course ... -, FTP ...) that were most directly influenced by Stalin, whether for coming into action - after the termination of the German-Soviet pact Hitler - the call for armed struggle, or the choice of a "historic compromise" in the fall of 1942, given the awareness of Stalin that the victory against the Nazis could not be achieved without the Allies. The book also clarifies the human toll of the French resistance, "is estimated at 30,000 the number of shot by the Germans and to 60,000 the number of political prisoners (half perished). The number of guerrillas killed in combat and FFI or massacred in mass graves is probably about 15,000 "(p. 103). Respect!
