Clare Mulley

Reliving the most famous last stand of the French Resistance

A review of The Cruel Victory, by Paddy Ashdown. The last days of the Free Republic of the Vercors sounded with ‘the screaming of unmilked cows and the rattle of the machine guns’

Appalling retributions and atrocities marked the end of the Free Republic of the Vercors. A French Resistance fighter is hanged in 1944 [LAPI/Roger Viollet] 
issue 07 June 2014
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  • The Cruel Victory

    Paddy Ashdown

    William Collins, pp. 472

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