Regards sur la seconde guerre mondiale en Pays Basque

"Nazi barbarism arrived in the Basque Country on a sad day in June 1940. She left in the summer of 1944. Despite being far from the combat zones and the multiple fronts opened by Germany, the Basque Country has gone through these four years of occupation in pain. A strategic region straddling the Pyrenees and open to the ocean, the Basque Country was at the heart of this eventful history. Tragically, it has revealed Man in all that he can have of inhumanity, but also in all that he has of fraternity. And brotherhood, which defends the values of freedom and democracy, has won the war here in the Basque Country too. This book reveals the little-known, often forgotten commitment of men and women who have been able to say "ez" or "no". Based on extensive research into unpublished archives and the collection of testimonies from actors of this period, Regards sur la Seconde Guerre Mondiale en Pays Basque highlights little-known episodes such as the embarkation of French and Polish soldiers at the port of Saint Jean de Luz, the dismantling of the Nivelle-Bidassoa network in Hendaye, the attempted Allied landing at Anglet, the round-ups of Jews by the French police in Bayonne, and the fighting of the Soule maquis. A testimonial book".