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    Vercors 1944: Resistance in the French Alps

    By Peter Lieb and Peter Dennis

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    Fighting insurgents has always been one of the greatest challenges for regular armed forces during the 20th century. The war between the Germans and the French resistance, also called FFI (Forces Françaises d'Intérieur), during World War II has remained a near-forgotten chapter in the history of these 'Small Wars'. This is all the more astonishing as agencies like the British SOE (Special Operations Executive) and the American OSS (Office of Strategic Services) pumped a good amount of their resources into the support of the French resistance movement. By diversionary attacks on German forces in the occupied hinterland the Allies hoped the FFI could provide assistance in disrupting German supply lines as well as crumbling their morale. The mountain plateau of the Vercors south-west of Grenoble was the main stronghold of the FFI, and in July 1944 some 8,000 German soldiers mounted an operation on the plateau and destroyed the insurgent groups there. The battle of the Vercors was the largest operation against the FFI during World War II and the German's suit and crushing victory has caused traumatic memories for the French that persist to the present day.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateDec 20, 2012
    ISBN9781780961163
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      This workmanlike account of the breaking of the alpine redoubt of the French Resistance deals in a number of verities, but most particularly the risks run by a guerrilla force when it prematurely goes into action against regular forces with their nerve in; some things don't change. The most damning thing in retrospect was the inability of the local leadership and the Free French HQ in London to be on the same page in terms of when to go into open confrontation and for which there seems to be no good answer as to why they weren't; if I wanted to be really cynical I'd suspect a desire to maintain operational security for the forthcoming Operation Dragoon.