In the Shadows of War : An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany

by Childers, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780805057522
• ISBN10: 0805057528
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-06
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.

Summary

The dramatic true story of an American pilot, a French schoolteacher, and a British-trained leader of the French underground in the climactic year of World War II In a small village in France during the fateful summer of 1944, three disparate lives converged in an unlikely secret alliance. Just after D-Day, Colette Florin hid downed American bomber pilot Roy Allen in her rooms above the tiny girls' school where she taught. While concealing him not only from the Germans but from her neighbors in the small village, she was drawn deeper into the clandestine world of the regional underground. There she met the local leader of the resistance: Pierre Mulsant, a young Frenchman trained by the British secret service who had parachuted into France in the spring of 1944. Drawn from extensive interviews, letters, and archival documents in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States,In the Shadows of Wartells their interrelated stories, following these three fascinating people from their Resistance activities in rural France, to Paris and captivity by the Gestapo, to Germany and Buchenwald concentration camp. It is a human story of love and loss, of courage and sacrifice by ordinary people who did not make policy or formulate strategy but whose lives were profoundly altered by war.

Author Biography

Thomas Childers is the Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of four previous books on World War II and National Socialism. He lives in Media, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. xiii
In Harm's Way
Operation Amoureuse: November 6-7, 1943	p. 3
"Specially Employed": March 3-4, 1944	p. 25
Milk Run: June 14, 1944	p. 54
A Village in France
Un Aviateur Americain: June 1944	p. 85
Minister: July 1944	p. 116
Une Chaine d'Evasion: July 1944	p. 143
Paris
Paris: July-August 1944	p. 173
Captain Jacques: August 1944	p. 198
The Train: August 15-20, 1944	p. 227
Buchenwald
Jedem das Seine: August 20-September 9, 1944	p. 253
Nacht und Nebel: September 12-October 4, 1944	p. 280
Alone in the Kingdom of the Dead: October-November, 1944	p. 316
Prisoners of War
Kriegie: December 1944-February 4, 1945	p. 351
Liberation: February-May 1945	p. 384
Postscript	p. 405
Notes	p. 409
Bibliography	p. 415
Author's Note	p. 421
Acknowledgments	p. 423
Index	p. 427
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