Aubrac chronicles her participation in the French Resistance from her home in Lyon (where Klaus Barbie was head of the Gestapo) in this absorbing memoir. Told in a series of flashbacks from 1943-1944, she captures the immediacy of the resistance and daily life under the Vichy government. Nicely translated by Conrad Bibber and with a 1992 epilogue by the author.  (FRN352, $15.95)

World War II