With personal and colourful reflections on tracking down resisters to the Nazi occupation of France, The French Resistance and its Legacy offers a captivating set of insights into the very substance of resistance, and the challenges it poses. The book uses a wealth of stories and testimonies to foreground the importance of imagination and inventiveness at the heart of resistance.

Introduction : a pursuit of resistance --The discourse of heroism -- The Aubrac Affair -- The discourse of exile -- The specificity of place -- The Nmirovsky effect -- Commemoration and testimony -- A generic conclusion.