World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, French
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, French
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World War, 1939-1945
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- Hanged at Auschwitz, an extraordinary memoir of survival, Sim Kessel ; [translated by Melville and Delight Wallace ; new introduction by Walter Laqueur]
- Tomi, a childhood under the Nazis, Tomi Ungerer
- Résistance, a woman's journal of struggle and defiance in occupied France, Agnès Humbert ; translated from the French and with notes by Barbara Mellor ; afterward by Julien Blanc
- A French tragedy, scenes of civil war, summer 1944, by Tzvetan Todorov ; translated by Mary Byrd Kelly ; translation edited and annotated by Richard J. Golsan
- Outwitting the Gestapo, Lucie Aubrac ; translated by Konrad Bieber, with the assistance of Betsy Wing ; with an introduction by Margaret Collins Weitz
- Auschwitz and after ?, Charlotte Delbo ; translated by Rosette C. Lamont ; with an introduction by Lawrence A. Langer
- No tears in Ireland, a memoir, Sylvia Couturié
- The war, a memoir, Marguerite Duras ; translated from the French by Barbara Bray
- Love and rutabaga, a remembrance of the war years, Claire Hsu Accomando
- Code name Christiane Clouet, a woman in the French Resistance, Claire Chevrillon ; translation by Jane Kielty Stott ; foreword by John F. Sweets
- And there was light, the extraordinary memoir of a blind hero of the French resistance in World War II, Jacques Lusseyran ; translated from the French by Elizabeth R. Cameron
- The open window, Georgette Elgey ; translated [from the French] by J. A. Underwood
- The forgotten soldier, Guy Sajer
- Flight to Arras, Antoine de Saint-Exup ery ; translated by Lewis Galanti ere
- My stripes were earned in hell, a French resistance fighter's memoir of survival in a Nazi prison camp, Jean-Pierre Renouard ; translated by Mimi Horne
- They shall not have me (Ils ne m'auront pas), the capture, forced labor, and escape of a French prisoner in World War II, Jean Hélion
- The forgotten soldier, Guy Sajer
- Diary of the dark years, 1940-1944, collaboration, resistance, and daily life in occupied Paris, Jean Guéhenno ; translated and annotated by David Ball
- Resistance, memoirs of occupied France, by Agnes Humbert ; translated from the French and with notes by Barbara Mellor ; preface by William Boyd ; afterword by Julien Blanc
- The complete war memoirs of Charles de Gaulle
- I saw Tokyo burning, an eyewitness narrative from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, by Robert Guillain ; translated by William Byron
- Auschwitz and after, Charlotte Delbo ; translated by Rosette C. Lamont ; with introduction by Lawrence A. Langer
- A train in winter, an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France, Caroline Moorehead
- Convoy to Auschwitz, women of the French resistance, Charlotte Delbo ; translated by Carol Cosman ; introduction by John Felstiner
- The forgotten soldier, Guy Sajer
- Pilote de guerre, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Wartime writings, 1939-1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ; translated by Norah Purcell ; with an introduction by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Auschwitz and after, Charlotte Delbo ; translated by Rosette C. Lamont
- Agents for escape, inside the French Resistance, 1939-1945, André Rougeyron ; translated by Marie A. McConnell
- Résistance, a woman's journal of struggle and defiance in occupied France, Agnès Humbert ; translated from the French and with notes by Barbara Mellor ; afterword by Julien Blanc
- Airman's odyssey, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ; with an introduction by Richard Bach
- Playing for time, Fania Fénelon with Marcelle Routier ; translated from the French by Judith Landry
- Recollections of the Second World War, Rosine Kauffmann Green
- Écrits de guerre, 1939-1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ; préface de Raymond Aron
- The eleventh commandment, a Jewish childhood in Nazi-occupied France, Leo Michel Abrami
- Flight to Arras, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ; translated from the French by Lewis Galantière ; illustrated by Bernard Lamotte
- The forgotten soldier, the classic WWII autobiography, Guy Sajer
- My Longest Night
- And there was light, the extraordinary memoir of a blind hero of the French Resistance in World War II, Jacques Lusseyran ; tranlated from the French by Elizabeth R. Cameron
- Strange defeat ;, a statement of evidence written in 1940, With an introd. by Sir Maurice Powicke and a foreword by Georges Altman. Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins
- The war, a memoir, Marguerite Duras ; translated from the French by Barbara Bray
- Literature or life, Jorge Semprun ; translated by Linda Coverdale
- Playing for time, a screenplay, by Arthur Miller
- Deposition, 1940-1944, a secret diary of life in Vichy France, Léon Werth ; edited and translated by David Ball
- Block 26: sabotage at Buchenwald, Translated from the French by Francis Price. Pref. by Joseph Kessel
- La douleur, Marguerite Duras
- Hanged at Auschwitz, Sim Kessel ; translated by Melville and Delight Wallace
- Rene's war, memoirs of French resistance in WWII, Michel Mockers
- My longest night, by Geneviéve Duboscq ; translated by Richard S. Woodward
- The forgotten soldier, the classic WWII autobiography, Guy Sajer
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