The year is 1942. london is battered but unsubdued while Paris lies at the proud feet of her conquerors, and the moment of truth has come for Britain's new American allies. Should they spearhead an invasion of metropolitan France, or, as Mr. Churchill wishes, attack the Axis Powers in French North Africa? And, wherever the invading forces strike, how will they be welcomed by those who, inside France, set themselves to resist occupation from the very hour of Hitler's triumph? Cathereine Gavin writes of the Resistance as it really was; not a cinematic succession of impossible herioics and moonlit escapades, but he daily, patient and thankless struggle of fallible men and women to raise France from the dust.

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