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

4.0

Hope is a whisper. The louder the world gets, the harder it is to hear. That is the miracle of Agnes Humbert’s life as presented in RESISTANCE. Despite all that she goes through, she still hears that whisper. Her story had me from the start when she was an art historian. Every step more intriguing than the last—breathless reading the French Resistance passage, terrified reading the Nazi Prisoner passage, horrified reading the slave labor portion, and fascinated reading it all through to the liberation portion. More surprising than the hope she holds onto is the sense of humor she retains. Granted it is often dark and cuts to the bone but it leavens the weight of her life and even sharpens the focus of her observations.