Combattant de la France Libre

by Jean-Mathieu Boris

Au mois de juin 1940, alors que le sort de la France semble avoir definitivement bascule, quelques hommes repondent a l'appel du general de Gaulle. Cette poignee d'hommes va constituer la France Libre. Jean-Mathieu Boris est l'un d'eux.

196 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Noah Goats · Rating 5 out of 5]

You have to really admire the soldiers who served with the Free French. They continued to fight at a time when the war looked pretty hopeless, most of their own countrymen had given up, and, for the first couple years of the war, their actions were actually unpopular with most people in their homeland who just wanted the war to be officially over so they could get on with their lives.

But men like Jean-Mathiew Boris didn't give up, and reading his account of his adventures across Africa and Europe is inspiring. It is also amusing, exciting, heartbreaking and very very human. It's impossible not to like the dashing young Boris who left his home at 19 to continue the war, and it's also impossible not to like the old Boris, writing his memories of those important events so many decades later. This is a very good WWII memoir.

[Marianne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rare to find an account of one of the very first volunteers with De Gaulle