SOLDIERS OF THE NIGHT
by David Schoenbrun
Dutton; 512 pages; $15.95
French society never showed its character more clearly than in the Resistance movements of World War II. Gallantry and resolute opposition to the German invaders were part of the display; in curable factionalism was another part. At the time of the liberation of Paris in 1944, for instance, separate and competitive Resistance groups, including blocs loyal to De Gaulle and to the Communists, were operating within the city. The squabbling and anarchical governments that misruled France before and after the war were blood cousins to the contentious and political Resistance apparatus,...
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