Resistance France - anything good

[PollyOrange]

I just started watching New look ( I thjnk it's called ) with Juliette Binoche as Coco Chanel and it made me want to read more about the resistance and nazi occupied Paris. Quite niche but anything spring to mind?

[moodymary]

I’ve just finished The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah which is about exactly that!

[BarbaraBuncle]

House of Glass by Hadley Freeman. Non-fiction, family history including the time during WW2.

Fair Stood The Wind For France by H E Bates. A novel set during the war, an RAF pilot shot down and in hiding in France.

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky - novel set during WW2 in France.

[FrancescaContini]

Agree with Fair Stood the Wind for France - it’s a compelling read.

Can you google for some French writers?

[OutingPosts]

Les Parisiennes by Anne Sebba. Non fiction

[MrsPringledusts]

Village of Secrets by Caroline Moorehead -  Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, located in the mountains of the eastern Massif Central helped to save many Jews during WW2. A most interesting read

[ZannaDelaney]

Non fiction but Mission France by Kate Vigurs is a really good read.

[PollyOrange]

Oh this is fabulous thank you !

[highlandcoo]

Have a look at Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks.

Also The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn (starts with the main characters as children but features the war and the Resistance later)

Restless by William Boyd.

And I agree Suite Française is brilliant. And so sad when you learn about the author's own story.

[Bookymcbook]

Sisters of the Resistance - Christine Wells

[Whosawake]

Loads of good recommendations here. There's also The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer and Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein- both very good.

[Allthegoodnamesarechosen]

‘Marianne in Chains’ is a non fiction account of the Loire Valley during the Occupation . I used to live in one of the main towns featured in the book, and elderly residents said it was pretty accurate.

[MrsPringledusts]

A Life in Secrets by Sarah Helm - about the woman - Vera Atkins - who trained agents for the SOE’s French operations, and how she tried to find out what happened to those who went missing

[lavenderlou]

Came on to recommend Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks too.

[OutingPosts]

@MrsPringledusts

A Life in Secrets by Sarah Helm - about the woman - Vera Atkins - who trained agents for the SOE’s French operations, and how she tried to find out what happened to those who went missing

Best book I've ever read!

[TonTonMacoute]

Non- fiction, Thé Resistance by Matthew Cobb, very good.

memoir Moondrop to Gascony by Anne Marie Walters.

[2mummies1baby]

This is about the Dutch Resistance rather than the French Resistance, but Tamar by Mal Peet is very good.

[dreamingofsun]

Citadel by kate moss was about french resistance. i wouldnt have chosen it as its not my usual type of book but someone leant it to me and i really enjoyed it

[BlueGlassOfDoom]

A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott - a novel in which the investigation of a murder in Paris links back to the Resistance.

[GetWhatYouWant]

A Quiet Courage by Liane Jones. Non fiction about some of the astonishingly brave women of the SOE dropped into occupied France and what happened to them.

[MiniFig]

I keep forgetting to check this topic.

Can i plug Revenge and Regret by Catherine. Mercer | Goodreads
(disclaimer: she has sadly passed now, but she was my french teacher at school many years ago. A most excellent and interesting woman.)

[Nonewclothes2024]

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.