The diary of a teenage resistance fighter in occupied France during WWII. Hubert Verneret was a fourteen-year-old schoolboy in Burgundy when the Germans invaded Poland, and fifteen when France fell. A boy scout, he helped refugees, aided the gendarmerie, moved wounded soldiers, and dug out bodies after air raids. Throughout, he wrote an eloquent diary that noted his thoughts and feelings as the French troops retreated and the Germans arrived. In 1944, aged nineteen, he decided to join the local maquis resistance fighters. Though constantly in danger, the maquisards worked to upset and weaken the retreating Germans to aid the Allied advance. This first English edition of Hubert's diary retains the original prefaces by Colonel Buckmaster, chief of the French section of the SOE, and Colonel d'Escrienne, aide de camp to General de Gaulle. AUTHOR: A teenager during World War II, he was a dedicated diarist who vividly described the events he saw in South Morvan. Now in his nineties he lives in Paris.
