An American Heroine in the French Resistance

This account by a woman who fought the Nazis alongside her husband is “an indelible portrait of extraordinary strength of character” ( The New Yorker ).   Virginia Roush fell in love with Philippe d’Albert-Lake during a visit to France in 1936; they married soon after. In 1943, they both joined the Resistance, where Virginia put her life in jeopardy as she sheltered downed airmen and later survived a Nazi prison camp. After the war, she stayed in France with Philippe, and was awarded the Lé