THE BATTLE OF SILENCE

Author: 'Vercors'

Publisher: Collins

Year published: 1968

Pagination: 286pp,

Condition: g in dw - may have prev. owner's bookplate/inscription. Some foxing to p/edges

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A wartime autobiography of one of the leading figures of the French Intellectual Resistance in WWII, originally published in France under the title "La Bataille Du Silence". Vercors is a pseudonym for Jean Bruller, a prestigious French author. This account is his first-hand story of the French people during the Nazi occupation. Appalled by the collaboration activities of so many of France's writers and artists during the German occupation, he joined the Resistance, and wrote and published "Silence of the Sea" under the noses of the Germans.