Après la défaite de juin 1940, la famille dAndré Boulloche refuse en bloc larmistice, le régime de Vichy et la collaboration. Tous vont participer de façon active et trois dentre eux vont mourir en d

Après la défaite de juin 1940, la famille dAndré Boulloche refuse en bloc larmistice, le régime de Vichy et la collaboration. Tous vont participer de façon active et trois dentre eux vont mourir en d

For the first time, a bourgeois Catholic family tells their extraordinary story of working for the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris during WW2. . . . a mix of history, biography and memoir which reads like a nerve-racking thriller. Guardian In the autumn of 1943, Andre Boulloche became de Gaulles military delegate in Paris, coordinating all the Resistance movements in the 9 northern regions of Franceonly to be betrayed by one of his associates, arrested, wounded by the Gestapo, and taken prisoner. His sisters carried on the fight without him until the end of the war. Andre survived 3 concentration camps and later became a prominent French politician who devoted the rest of his life to reconciliation of France and Germany. His parents and oldest brother were arrested and shipped off on the last train from Paris to Germany before the liberation, and died in the camps. Since then, silence has been the Boullochess answer to dealing with the unbearable. This is the first time the family has cooperated with an author to recount their extraordinary ordeal.