title: Agents for Escape: Inside the French Resistance, 1939-1945
author: Andre Rougeyron
description: Privately published in France in 1947, this memoir by a self-effacing resistance hero offers continuous suspense and excitement. Rougeyron, an auto engineer living in Normandy, risked his life throughout the war rescuing downed Allied airmen, supplying them with clothes and identity papers and launching them down the underground escape pipeline. Caught by the Gestapo in 1944, he was charged with Feindsbegunstigung (abetting the enemy) and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. With verve and even humor, he tells the story of his struggle to survive and his spectacular escape during the camp's evacuation. Wearing prisoners' striped pajamas, his head shaven, unable to speak German and ignorant of local topography, he managed to evade capture and starvation until he made contact with advancing British troops. Rougeyron's jaunty narrative voice and powers of description add a fresh perspective on the resistance in Normandy at the time of the D-Day landings and on conditions at Buchenwald during the final months of WWII. He died in 1967 at the age of 68. Illustrated. <br />Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  HÉDI KADDOUR
  
  
  Waltenberg
  
  
  Translated from the French by David Coward
  
  
  VINTAGE BOOKS
  
  
  London
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by Vintage 2009 2468 10 9753
  
  
  Copyright © Éditions Gallimard, Paris 2005
  
  
  English translation copyright © David Coward 2008
  
  
  Hédi Kaddour has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents
  Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work
  
  
  First published with the title Waltenberg in 2008 by Éditions Gallimard, Paris
  
  
  First published in Great Britain in 2008 by Harvill Seeker Vintage
  
  
  Random House
  
  
   This book is supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of
  the Burgess programme run by the Cultural Department of the French Embassy in
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  For Lucienne and Habib Kaddour
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Table Of Contents
  
  
  [Chapter 1  1914 The Charge](008.html#a95)
  
  
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