She began: “My very dear little only son…”
RAF Sergeant Leslie John Faircloth parachuted to safety when he was shot down on a bombing raid on the Paris/Vaires railway yard on the outskirts of Paris in 1944.
The world has always underestimated women.
Escape Across the Pyrenees During the Occupation
Escape Across the Pyrenees During the Occupation
In February 1944, a Resistance fighter walked into a tobacconist’s shop on Place Arago and shot Henri Treyeran
How about a day out in an iconic Citroën 2CV?
Towards the end of August 1944, resistance fighters from all around the region fought Germans and French militia to take back Perpignan.
The enemy did not always wear a German uniform.
Collaboration was more widespread than romantic accounts of French resistance would have us believe