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This account by a woman who fought the Nazis alongside her husband is "an indelible portrait of extraordinary strength of character" (The New Yorker). Virginia Roush fell in love with Philippe d'Albert-Lake during a visit to France in 1936; they married soon after. In 1943, they both joined the Resistance, where Virginia put her life in jeopardy as she sheltered downed airmen and later survived a Nazi prison camp. After the war, she stayed in France with Philippe, and was awarded the Lǧion d'Honneur and the Medal of Honor. This book includes two rare documents-Virginia's diary of wartime France until her capture in 1944, and her prison memoir written immediately after the war
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