{"product_id":"the-art-of-resistance-my-four-years-in-the-french-underground-a-memoir-a-true-wwii-spy-thriller-about-rescuing-holocaust-refugees","title":"The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir – A True WWII Spy Thriller About Rescuing Holocaust Refugees","description":"\"Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew’s flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground.” —USA Today\nAn American Library in Paris Book Award \"Coups de Coeur\" Selection\nThe Art of Resistance\nis unlike any World War II memoir before it. Its author, Justus Rosenberg, has\nspent the past seventy years teaching the classics of literature to American\ncollege students. Hidden within him, however, was a remarkable true story of\nwartime courage and romance worthy of a great novel. Here is Professor\nRosenberg’s elegant and gripping chronicle of his youth in Nazi-occupied\nEurope, when he risked everything to stand against evil.\n\nIn 1937, after witnessing a\nviolent Nazi mob in his hometown of Danzig, a majority German city on the\nBaltic Sea, sixteen-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent by his Jewish parents to\nParis to finish his education in safety. Three years later, the Nazis came\nagain, as France fell to the Germans. Alone and in danger, Justus fled Paris,\nheading south. A chance meeting led him to Varian Fry, an American journalist\nin Marseille who led a clandestine network helping thousands of men and\nwomen—including many legendary artists and intellectuals, among them Hannah\nArendt, Marc Chagall, Andre Breton, and Max Ernst—escape the Nazis. With his intimate\nunderstanding of French and German culture, and fluency in several languages,\nincluding English, Justus became an invaluable member of Fry’s operation as a\nspy and scout.\n\nAfter\nthe Vichy government expelled Fry from France, Justus worked in Grenoble,\nrecruiting young men and women for the Underground Army. For the next four\nyears, he would be an essential component of the Resistance, relying on his\nwits and skills to survive several close calls with death. Once, he found\nhimself in a Nazi internment camp, with his next stop Auschwitz—and yet Justus\nfound an ingenious way to escape. He two years during the war gathering\nintelligence, surveying German installations and troop movements on the\nMediterranean. Then, after the allied invasion at Normandy in 1944, Justus became\na guerrilla fighter, participating in and leading commando raids to disrupt the\nGerman retreat across France.\n\nAt the end of the Second World War, Justus emigrated to\nAmerica, and built a new life. For the past fifty years, he has taught\nliterature at Bard College, shaping the inner lives of generations of students.\nNow he adds his own story to the library of great coming-of-age memoirs: The Art of Resistance is a powerful saga\nof bravery and defiance, a true-life spy thriller touched throughout by a\nprofessor’s wisdom.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0062742205\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0062742205.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Rosenberg, Justus\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43300605263933,"sku":"BVV.0062742205.G","price":8.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0062742205-0.jpg?v=1782596695","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-art-of-resistance-my-four-years-in-the-french-underground-a-memoir-a-true-wwii-spy-thriller-about-rescuing-holocaust-refugees","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}