It emerged at the end of 1942 in response to the increasingly harsh policies introduced by the occupying forces and was largely composed of young men escaping the compulsory labour service sto introduced at the end of 1942. Une amere victoire, gallimard les resistants du maquis du vercors, selon paddy ashdown, ont ete sacrifies sur lautel dune strategie nationale et internationale qui leur echappait totalement. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Vassieuxen vercors, on the vercors massif of the alps, was a center of the resistance of the maquis du vercors. The magnitude of the french defeat in june 1940, after a mere six weeks, compelled the writer vercors jean bruller, author of that celebrated novella of passive resistance, the silence of the.
The vercors is a range of mountains and plateaus between the drome and isere river valleys in. A treasury of children s literature is a welldeserved title. The french maquis and the allies during the second world. After dday the french resistance rose to sabotage the nazi war effort.
The maquis was one of the many forms of resistance in frances fight against the german occupation and the vichy regime during the second world war. Ww2 maquis book cover sculpture of violette szabo on the maquis french resistance fighters of world war ii memorial, lambeth palace road, london, uk. It was the administrative centre of the eponymous canton until the departmental elections of 2015. Reviewed in the united states on november 28, 2016. Paddy ashdowns fine account of the vercors rising, when a substantial maquis force took on a ruthless german division in a battle that ended in a massacre. Resistance men and women from marc serratrice s book avoir 20 ans au maquis du vercors.
The maquis du vercors was a rural group of the french forces of the interior resistance maquis that fought the 19401944 german occupation of france in. For ashdown, vercors is the hidden story of dday and he tells it with. The vercors resistance museum, located in vassieuxenvercors, a village. Raymond anne was born on 17 december 1922 in villersbocage, calvados.