Blémus, sergent-chef, Ceux du maquis: Plainefas, Vermot, Les Goths

[France]: [publisher not identified], [1944]

An illustration of the life of a Maquis resistance group in the ‘camp des Goths’ in the Morvan forest region of Burgundy, south-east of Auxerre in the Occupied Zone. In May 1944 there were 40 Maquisards. By September there were 700. They had 28 engagements, resulting in the death of 283 Germans with an unrecorded number of deaths on their own side. The illustrations are by Sergent Blémus, an assistant at the Institut Géographique National in Paris where the book was printed. The soldier in glasses on the right is Captain Camille, the founder of the group. The woman on the far left is Sergent France, infirmière-major.

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