The Duty of Memory

The Duty of Memory is the inspiring true story of twenty men and women, unsung heroes of the French underground. It depicts the personal journeys of each individual and helps the reader understand what motivated them to risk their lives and the lives of their families. It is about twenty people with twenty different driving forces.

Some of the resistants did nothing more than provide shelter for shot-down Allied Airmen. Others crashed through Nazi blockades and blew up railroad marshaling yards. Each fought a personal war to free France from Hitler’s occupation—all risked arrest, interrogation, internment in prison camps, and death.