San Antonio College Library

This is the story of an American actress who uses all of her resources and ingenuity for a year to effect the release of her lover from a German concentration camp. Their's is a deeply moving story of courage, loyalty, and faith played against a somber background of Nazi trickery and betrayal.

L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the nature of resistance and the price of courage, these heroes...