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Authors: Max Hastings

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George Hiller, French Section’s officer in the Lot

‘Soleil’, René Cousteille, leader of the Groupe Soleil

Jacques Poirer – ‘Nestor’ – who, with Harry Peulevé, armed most of the
maquisards
of the Corrèze and Dordogne who met the Das Reich division after 6 June

Marius Guedi (right), Jacques Poirier (second right) and other résistants of the Corrèze

Odette Bach, who kept the ‘stray dogs home’ in Figeac

André Malraux, author of
La Condition Humaine
and one of the most extraordinary figures who held the stage in the Resistance of the Dordogne and the Corrèze in 1944

Baron Philippe de Gunzbourg on the bicycle on which he travelled more than 15,000 miles on his missions for Wheelright in the Dordogne, often with
plastique
on the carrier

Major Otto Weidinger of the Der Führer regiment, of which he assumed command on 16 June 1944

General Hienz Lammerding, with one of the division’s Panzers in the background

A unique unpublished photograph from the private album of an SS officer: as the march north from Montauban began, (left to right) Major Helmut Kampie, Major Ernst Krag, Colonel Albert Stuckler and General Heinz Lammerding

One of the most famous
parachutages
of the war – a vast daylight drop near Loubressac on 14 July (Bastille Day) 1944, which provided huge supplies of arms for the
maquis
of the Corrèze, Lot and Dordogne

Jean-Jacques Chapou, known as ‘Philippe’ in the Lot and ‘Kleber’ in the Corrèze

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