L'Armée Des Ombres

Description: It was in London, in 1943, that Joseph Kessel, incomparable storyteller and first chronicler of our time, wrote "The Army of Shadows", which is not only one of his masterpieces but the novel-symbol of the Resistance that the author presents as follows: "France has no more bread, wine, fire. But above all, it has no more laws. Civic disobedience, individual or organized rebellion have become Never has France waged a higher and finer war than that of the cellars where her free newspapers are printed, of the nocturnal fields and the secret creeks where she receives her free friends and whence her children depart. free, torture cells where despite the pincers, red-hot pins and crushed bones, French people die as free men.Everything we are going to read here has been experienced by people from France."