The Cost of Courage, Charles Kaiser
The Cost of Courage, Charles Kaiser
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The Cost of Courage

Author: Charles Kaiser

Narrator: Charles Kaiser

Unabridged: 6 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/16/2015

Synopsis

In the autumn of 1943, André Boulloche became de Gaulle’s military delegate in Paris, coordinating all the Resistance movements in the nine northern regions of France only to be betrayed by one of his associates, arrested, wounded by the Gestapo, and taken prisoner. His sisters carried on the fight without him until the end of the war. André survived three concentration camps and later became a prominent French politician who devoted the rest of his life to reconciliation of France and Germany. His parents and oldest brother were arrested and shipped off on the last train from Paris to Germany before the liberation, and died in the camps. Since then, silence has been the Boulloches's answer to dealing with the unbearable. This is the first time the family has cooperated with an author to recount their extraordinary ordeal.

About Charles Kaiser

Charles Kaiser is the author of 1968 in America, one of the most admired popular histories of the music, politics, and culture of the 1960s, and The Gay Metropolis, the landmark history of gay life in America, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Lambda Literary Award winner. He is a former reporter for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and a former press critic for Newsweek. His articles and reviews have also appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, New York, Vogue, Vanity Fair, the Guardian, and New Republic, among other publications. He grew up in Washington, D.C.; Dakar, Senegal; London, England; and Windsor, Connecticut. Since 1968 he has lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, except for the two and a half years he spent in France to research The Cost of Courage.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Skip

I won this book as a Goodreads giveaway (yay!) It is non-fiction book about Occupied France, although the central focus is the Boulloche family, who three children were members of the French resistance, who actively opposed the German occupation and Vichy government. I would have preferred more deta......more

Goodreads review by Kate

"Courage is more exhilarating than fear an in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time." Eleanor Roosevelt. This is the story of the Boulloche family, an highly educated uppermiddle class French family who had a deep sense of patriotism. The Father......more

Goodreads review by Jean

This is the exciting story of Jacques and Helene Boulloche and their four children Robert, Andre, Christiane and Jacqueline. Kaiser’s uncle was billeted with the Boulloche family in Paris when he was in the U.S. Army in 1944. The story starts in 1939, and follows the Boulloche family, who were pros......more

Goodreads review by Randy

I broke my rule against audiobooks read by the author when I bought this book. It's a good rule. But despite the spotty narration, this is a solid book about the French Resistance, what they did and how they survived - or, more often, didn't. The focus is on the members of a single Parisian family,......more

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