An American Heroine in the French Resistance: The Diary and Memoir of Virginia D'Albert-Lake

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An American Heroine in the French Resistance An American Heroine in the French Resistance The Diary and Memoir of Virginia d’Albert-Lake Edited, with an introduction, by Judy Barrett Litoff fordham university press New York 2006 Copyright 䉷 2006 by Judy Barrett Litoff and Jim Calio. Diary and memoir of Virginia d’Albert-Lake copyright 䉷 2006 by Patrick d’Albert-Lake. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension, No. 9 ISSN 1541-0293 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Albert-Lake, Virginia d’, 1909– An American heroine in the French Resistance : the diary and memoir of Virginia d’Albert-Lake / edited by Judy Barrett Litoff. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (World War II—the globa, human, and ethical dimension, ISSN 1541-0293 ; 9) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8232-2581-1 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8232-2582-8 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Albert-Lake, Virginia d’, 1909– 2. Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) 3. World War, 1939–1945—Prisoners and prisons, German. 4. World War, 1939–1945—Personal narratives, American. 5. World, War, 1939–1945— Underground movements—France. 6. Prisoners of war—Germany—Biography. 7. Prisoners of war—United States—Biography. 8. France—History—German occupation, 1940–1945. I. Litoff, Judy Barrett. II. Title. III. Series. D805.5.R38A43 2005 940.53⬘44092—dc22 2005034897 Printed in the United States of America First paperback edition 2008 ...