The story of the journey as a committed resistance fighter of an Air Force officer, who was the godfather of base 726 in Nîmes, now closed. A forgotten aviator.
After the defeat in the summer of 1940 and the dissolution of the Armistice Army at the end of 1942, the French military followed varied paths. Some go to North Africa to continue the fight, some collaborate, some hole up at home while waiting for orders. But others, a handful in fact, fully engaged in active Resistance. In Montpellier, Pierre COLIN is one of them. How do you go from being an Air Force officer to becoming a Resistance fighter? How does the relational network essential to effective Resistance against the enemy come together through encounters? How can we resist without necessarily taking the shot? Who are the men and women involved in the Resistance networks around this officer? What do they experience on a daily basis? This is what this book tries to tell. Written almost 80 years after the events, it seeks to take into account in one place all the rare archives available, often unpublished, sometimes contradictory. He writes the story of a few resistance fighters engaged in the heart of Hérault between 1942 and 1944. Many of them lost their lives there, others escaped and were able to testify. They are all our history, our memory.
220 pages, 120 characters mentioned, 45 illustrations. A5 format, soft cover.
