A review by uncommongrace25
Resistance: A French Woman's Journal of the War by Agnès Humbert

3.0

First person account of life in Paris following Nazi occupation where she joined a resistance group promoting propoganda against the regime. She was later imprisoned in France and later Germany and forced to work as a slave laborer. Her spirit and life shine through even in the darkest recounting of the trials of her life as a 40+ year old woman in the grips of an evil regime. The first and end parts are taken from her actual diaries with the middle portion detailing her imprisonment recounted from memory soon after the events as she had nothing to write with for many years. I would recommend portions for reading for high school students as a companion to Anne Frank and other accounts of the era. Humbert was not Jewish and she recounts a different aspect of Nazi barbarism than typical accounts but no less gripping.