Volume 27, Number 13 · August 14, 1980
Did the Resistance Matter?
By Robert O. Paxton
Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance
by David Schoenbrun
Dutton, 512 pp., $15.95
David Schoenbrun begins his panorama of the French Resistance of 1940-1944 with a memorial celebration: a gathering in September 1977 at a remote clearing in the Corrèze which British courier aircraft had been able to use thirty-five years earlier to ferry Resistance leaders in and out of half-occupied France. It is an appropriate beginning. The book, too, is a celebration and a memorial. It represents a resistant's view of the Resistance with all the uncomplicated piety of a French village monument aux morts.
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