Resistance

Name: Resistance
Brand: Biteback Publishing

Biteback Publishing

ResistanceEuropean Resistance to the Nazis 1945\nAuthor(s): Michael R D Foot\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Biteback Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Biteback Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781785900464, 978-1785900464\nSynopsis\n\""If you who read this can say, I am not under fire; I am not under torture; I am not on the run; if I hear a noise at six in the morning, I know it is a neighbour or a milkman, not the secret police; no one in my country is arrested and held without prompt charge and trial ...then you owe it, in a larger degree than most historians have so far allowed, to the resistance that occupied Europe put up to Hitler.\""An instant classic upon its initial publication in 1976, this fluent and persuasive book was the first to analyse the whole field of wartime resistance to the Nazis in Europe, to explain what resisters could and could not do, and to assess whether they achieved their aims. It is a truly epic theme, with its drama of intelligence, deception, escape and subve.