05582cam a2200505 4500 265060085 TxAuBib 20160416120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781590516157 159051615X B00ONTR71O Amazon 87ba3e69-b111-4df1-a6df-cf7e22a26b4a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2069531 OverDrive (Product ID) 238162 2069531 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kaiser, Charles. The Cost of Courage [Libby]. Other Press, 2015. France. WWII. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 5650kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 5650kB. History. True Crime. Military. Nonfiction. "[A] vivid family portrait that examines four siblings' heroic contribution to the French resistance of WWII...a riveting paean to unsung war heroes in occupied France.". HTML:Publisher's Weekly. "[R]iveting... Charles Kaiser captures the devotion the brother and two sisters have for one another and their extended family.". HTML:The Missourian. HTML:"The Cost of Courage is good history, loving biography, excellent reporting. It turns out the cost of courage is beyond the means of most of us.". HTML:Edmund White, author of Inside a Pearl. "Even now, almost three quarters of a century after the second world war, the role played by the French resistance in German occupied and Vichy France is often overlooked. Charles Kaiser has not only unearthed the story of an extraordinary family, but set it against a world in which courage, selflessness and resilience were of greater importance than personal survival and collaboration, however trivial. It makes for a fascinating book.". HTML:Caroline Moorehead, author of A Train In Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance In Occupied France. "In this poignant personal tale, Kaiser explores the emotions and breaks through the silences that haunted an amazing family after their experiences in the French resistance to Nazi occupation. The result is a compelling and heart-wrenching book about courage, love, and the complex shadings of heroism.". HTML:Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs. "One legacy of the Nazi occupation of France was secrecy, a shield that long hid the heroism of resisters no less than the shame of collaborators. In this gripping true-life drama, Charles Kaiser reveals the long-buried story of one prosperous Parisian family that paid a high price for the bravery of its children. Until now, only through silence could they live with the painful cost of their courage.". HTML:Alan Riding, author of And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris. "A very compelling story.". HTML:Robert O. Paxton, author of Vichy France. "Charles Kaiser deserves a Legion of Honor red ribbon for bringing to vibrant life the suspenseful, never-before-told true story of a family's courage, suffering and ultimate triumph amid the existential dangers and challenges of the French Resistance. Chapeau!". HTML:Hendrik Hertzberg, author of Politics: Observations & Arguments, 1966-2004. "A dramatic, often affecting account of the emergence of gay people from fear and self-hatred into uncloseted, self-confident participation in society.". HTML:The Washington Post. HTML:"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. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-06-17 11:49:49. http://nh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=87ba3e69-b111-4df1-a6df-cf7e22a26b4a http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=87ba3e69-b111-4df1-a6df-cf7e22a26b4a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=87ba3e69-b111-4df1-a6df-cf7e22a26b4a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=87ba3e69-b111-4df1-a6df-cf7e22a26b4a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)