A Packhorse Called Rachel [electronic resource]
Kellermann, Marcelle2009
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A story of courage, fear and defiance based on the authors own personal experience. A Pack Horse Called Rachel is the remarkable tale of a young woman, half Jewish, caught in the extraordinarily brutal world of France in 1944. Rachel moves through the pages of the book with her faithful dog Nourse, touching lives as her work with the Maquis based in the Auvergne takes her perilously close to danger on a day to day basis.
The story is based on personal experience, the description of historical events is as true as memory will allow, it is an elegantly written story capturing first hand Kellermann’s painful and lonely life as a resistance fighter within the ‘Maquis’, amidst the harsh beauty of the Auvergne. Beset by the freezing cold climate prevailing in winter, the Vichy traitors amongst the normal French Population and the hostility of ordinary people afraid for their own lives.
Rachel overcomes the initial animosity and mistrust of the lecherous and alcoholic farmer Raboullet on whom she comes to rely; the wrath of the Gestapo, the betrayal of St Pré, a full and passionate love affair, tragic loss and yet she survives.
Marcel Kellermann notes, with descriptive talent, and intricate detail that only someone especially observant could recall. From the opening raid to the closing trial, the book gives an incisive view, as we understand the mind and soul of the resistance better with each page. This is the story of a young woman paralleled with the struggle of a nation as it regains its courage to fight back.
Main title:
A Packhorse Called Rachel [electronic resource] / Marcelle Kellermann
Author:
Kellermann, Marcelle, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : M-Y Books, 2009
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Marcelle Kellermann, a Parisian, interrupted her studies at the university
in Clermont-Ferrand in France's Auvergne in her early twenties
and joined the Resistance in 1942.
After the war she married the physicist Walter Kellermann in
Manchester with whom she had three children. She completed her
studies in England and eventually became a Senior Education Adviser
in Yorkshire. She developed new ways of teaching foreign languages
and published two books on the subject.
She now lives in Hampstead, London.
ISBN:
9781906658021
Language:
English
BRN:
2896201
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