The result is a mix of history biography and memoir which reads like a nerve-racking thriller mdashThe Guardian USThis heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the French Resistance is told by an American writer who has known and admired the family for five decades In the autumn of Andreacute Boulloche became de Gaullersquos military delegate in Pariscoordinating all the Resistance movements in the nine northern regions of France only to be betrayed by one of his associates arrested wounded by the Gestapo and taken prisoner His sisters carried on the fight without him until the end of the warAndreacute survived three concentration camps and later became a prominent French politician who devoted the rest of his life to reconciliation of France and GermanyHis parents and oldest brother were arrested and shipped off on the last train from Paris to Germany before the liberation and died in the camps Since then silence has been the Boullochesrsquos answer to dealing with the unbearable This is the first time the family has cooperated with an author to recount their extraordinary ordeal.
