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This event is free and open to the public.
The Amherst Association of Boston invites you to attend a discussion with Ronald C. Rosbottom, Winifred L. Arms Professor in the Arts and Humanities, on his new book:
Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945
About Sudden Courage:
The author of the acclaimed When Paris Went Dark, longlisted for the National Book Award, returns to World War II once again to tell the incredible story of the youngest members of the French Resistance—many only teenagers—who waged a hidden war against the Nazi occupiers and their collaborators in Paris and across France.
Ronald Rosbottom tells the riveting story of how those brave and untested youth went from learning about literature to learning the art of sabotage, from figuring out how to solve an equation to how to stealthily avoid patrols, from passing notes to stealing secrets—and even learning how to kill.
Sudden Courage brilliantly evokes this dark and uncertain period, from the beginning of the occupation until the last German left French soil. A chronicle of youthful sacrifice and courage in the face of evil, it is a story that holds relevance for our own time, when democratic nations are once again under threat from rising nativism and authoritarianism. Beyond that, it is a riveting investigation about what it means for a young person to come of age under unpredictable and violent circumstances.
Questions? Contact Katherine Hillenbrand ’12 at katherinehillenbrand@gmail.com.
Presented by the Amherst Association of the Boston