Book/Reference List (Movies below)

* = recommended ** = favorite

  • Aubrac, Lucie; Outwitting the Gestapo; Bison Books; 1993 ISBN# 0-8032-523-9 $12 Available
  • Aubrac, Raymond*; The French Resistance, 1940-1944; Pocket Archives; 1997 ISBN# 2-85025-567-X $13 Available
  • de Bénouville, Guillain; The Unknown Warriors; Simon and Schuster; 1949; no ISBN; $10-15; Available
  • Bird, Michael J.; The Secret Battalion; Holt, Rinehard & Winston; 1964 LCCCN# 64-14348 $20 Available
  • Bodson, Herman**; Agent for the Resistance; Texas A&M University Press; 1994 ISBN# 0-89096-607-9 $12 Available
  • Burrin, Philippe; France Under the Germans; New Press; 1993 ISBN# 1-56584-323-1 $28 Available
  • Charles, Dr. Jean-Léon; History of the Second World War, Europes Secret Armies; Marshall Cavendish Ltd.; 1974 magazine, Hard to find
  • Collins, Larry; Is Paris Burning?; Simon & Schuster; 1965 $2-10 easily found
  • Dank, Milton; The French Against The French; Lippincott; 1974 ISBN# 0-397-01040-0 $10-20 Can be found
  • Delarue, Jacques; The Gestapo; Dell/Macdonald & Co.; 1964 $2-5 Available
  • De Vomécourt, Philippe**; An Army of Amateurs; Doubleday; 1961 $?
  • Ehrlich, Blake; The French Resistance 1940-1945; Chapman and Hall; 1966 $10 -30 Can be found
  • Farmer, Sarah; Martyred Village; Univ. of California Press; 1999 ISBN# 0-520-21186-3 Available
  • Foot, M.R.D; SOE 1940-46; University Publications of America; 1984; ISBN # 0-89093-673-0; $10 Available
  • Fourcade, Marie-Madeleine*; Noah's Ark; E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc; 1974 ISBN# 0-525-16820 $10-20 Available
  • Gordon, Bertram M.; Historical Dictionary of WWII France; Greenwood Press; 1998 ISBN# 0-313-29421-6 $100 Available
  • Govare, James Paul**; Life in Paris Under German Occupation; Le Rayonnement Français; 1945 pamphlet, rare
  • Hastings, Max*; Das Reich; Jove; 1983 ISBN# 0-515-07134-X $varies Hard to find
  • Lande, D.A.*; Resistance! Occupied Europe and its Defiance of Hitler; MBI Publishing Co.; 2000 ISBN# 0-7603-0745-8 $20 Available
  • Lewis, S.J.; Jedburgh Team Operations in Support of 12 Army Group; Combat Studies Institute; 1991 $? Hard to find
  • Lorain, Pierre**; Clandestine Operations; Macmillan Pub.; 1983 ISBN# 0-02-575200-6 $? Rare
  • Men-At-Arms Series; The French Army 1939-40 (1); Osprey; 1998 ISBN# 1-85532-666-3 $13 Available
  • Men-At-Arms Series; The French Army 1939-40 (2); Osprey; 1998 ISBN# 1-85532-707-4 $13 Available
  • Men-At-Arms Series; Resistance Warfare 1940-45; Osprey; 1985 ISBN# 0-85045-638-X $13 Available
  • Miller, Russell; The Resistance; Time-Life Books; 1979 ISBN# 0-8094-2524-6 $5-10 Available
  • Pearson, Michael; Tears of Glory - Vercors 1944; Doubleday Books; 1979 ISBN# 0-385-11446-X $Varies Hard to find
  • Poirier, Jacques R.E.**; The Giraffe has a Long Neck; Pen and Sword Books; 1995 ISBN# 0-85052-461 X $22 Available
  • Ramsey, Winston G.; After the Battle #105, Resistance in France; Trafford Print Colour; 1999 magazine $7 Available
  • Rigden, Denis**; SOE Syllabus, Lessons in Ungentlemanly Warfare, WWII; St. Edmundsbury Press; 2001; ISBN# 1-903365-18-X; $30 Available
  • Rings, Werner; Life With the Enemy; Doubleday & Co.; 1982; ISBN# 0-385-17082-3; $13 Available
  • Schoenbrun, David; Soldiers of the Night; Meridian; 1981 $6-10 Can be found
  • Sevier, Elisabeth; Resistance Fighter; Sunflower Univ. Press; 1998 ISBN# 0-89745-223-2 $12-20 Available
  • Skennerton, Ian: 9mm Sten Machine Carbine, Mk 1,2,3; Ian Skennerton, 1999 ISBN 0-949-749-27-2 $12 Available
  • Sweets, John F.; Choices in Vichy France; Oxford Univ. Press; 1994 ISBN# 0-19-509-052-7 $21 Available
  • Wellsted, Ian; SAS with the Maquis; Greenhill Books; 1994 ISBN# 1-85367-186-X Available?
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    (All of the following books are in French)
  • Demaziére, Albert; La Résistance par ceux qui l'ont vécue; Brodard et Taupin; 1975; Dossier Historama #3; Hard to find
  • Renault, Gilbert <Col. Rémy>; Reseaux d'Ombres; Editions France-Empire; 1957 Available?
  • Renault, Gilbert <Col. Rémy>; Les Mains Jointes; Editions Raoul Solar; 1948 Available?
  • Renault, Gilbert <Col. Rémy>; Le Livre du Courage et de la Peur; Editions Aux Trois Couleurs; Available?
  • Renault, Gilbert <Col. Rémy>; Comment Meurt un Reseau; Editions Raoul Solar; Available?
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    Movies
    Charlotte Gray - 2001
    Set in German-occupied France at the height of World War II, Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman who joins the SOE and works with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best–selling novel by Sebastian Faulks, the film stars Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon and Rupert Penry-Jones. Charlotte Gray is directed by Gillian Armstrong and produced by Sarah Curtis and Douglas Rae.
     
    Lucie Aubrac - 1997
    This is an excellent French film about the French resistance in Paris in 1943. It is a well-told, suspenseful story. The plot is very simple. A Frenchman, one of the leaders of the resistance, is captured, released, then captured again and tortured. With the assistance of his faithful wife and others of the resistance, he escapes and is spirited to England.
     
    The Sorrow and the Pity - 1971
    This film was the first visual investigation of the part that France played when Vichy France and Marshall Petain collaborated with the Germans. Using footage of actual events and interviews with Germans and Vichy French citizens and members of the French Resistance and their loved ones, the host of this documentary presents a thoughtful and startling look at the people who were involved in WWII in France. A must film to view for any mature human being.
     
    The Train - 1964
    This tense action drama from John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate) stars Burt Lancaster as a member of the French Resistance trying to prevent Nazi looters from taking valuable art treasures out of the country. This is a true, human-scale action movie of the sort we used to think of before "action" meant blowing up asteroids in space. Kinetic but almost rueful in tone, the film's chases and fights aren't just eye candy but rather encourage audience involvement in moral stakes. Crisp and serious performances all around from Lancaster and 1960s icons Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau. --Tom Keogh
     
    13 Rue Madeline - 1946
    This film is not only a revealing glimpse into the workings of the O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services) during WW II, but it is also a full-fledged spy thriller. An excellent cast includes James Cagney, Karl Malden, E.G. Marshall, and Red Buttons. Cagney stars as an O.S.S. training officer, bent upon discovering a German traitor within his ranks while at the same time completing highly dangerous espionage assignments into occupied France. The risks increase when one of his men is murdered from within, and Cagney, convinced he knows who the murdering infiltrator is, vows revenge. Authentic O.S.S. film footage make this film historically significant as well as entertaining.
     
    Underground - 1941
    Underground is an average Warner Bros. suspenser, given a boost by its unrelenting portrayal of Nazis as verminous scum--several months before America's entry into World War II. Jeffrey Lynn plays an impressionable young European who is intoxicated by the "glories" of National Socialism. Lynn's brother, Philip Dorn, is on the opposite side of the fence as an announcer for an underground Resistance radio station. At first scornful of his brother's activities, Lynn soon learns that Hitler isn't the saint he believed him to be--especially after several of his friends are liquidated by the Gestapo. Lynn belatedly joins his brother's cause and, at the cost of his own life, helps the Resistance thwart a band of fifth columnists. Underground is a solid piece of film craftsmanship, lacking only the big star names that would have made it a box-office hit. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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