- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Barnworks Publishing (15 Oct 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1899174028
- ISBN-13: 978-1899174027
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.4 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #28 in Books > History > World History > World War II 1939-1945 > Resistance > French Resistance
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The tiny village of Bignor, near Petworth, Sussex, may appear a sleepy place, but during World War II it provided the ideal camouflage for a "secret house", hiding men and women from the French Resistance. The owner of the house recalls her memories and experiences of the times.
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Someone recently gave me a signed first edition of this book as a gift but I was so struck with it that I ordered two more copies for friends. The book was first published in 1995 although written shortly after the War - we are not told why it took so long to go to print, perhaps something to do with 'Official Secrets', but in the most readable manner the author tells the extraordinary story of how she and her husband looked after French Resistance agents entering and leaving the country during WWII, transported by the 'Moonlight Squadrons' that operated out of Tangmere. Yet so many of these extraordinary people were tortured and killed once behind enemy lines. This 'safe house' was in Bignor, a downland village near Petworth, and but the agents that passed through were never told where they were so that they would not be able to give away its location under torture. The author tells how she managed to explain the presence of so many foreigners under her roof during the War, how she had to sew poison into the cuffs of their sleeves if they felt they would not be able to withstand torture if they were captured, how she had to check all their baggage before departure to make sure that there were no Made In England labels on anything... and so it continues. This is not a vast book - it will not take you long to read, but I suspect you will read it more than once.
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