The Saboteur, Aristocrat, Avenger: The Story of Count La Rochefoucauld, Who Became a Nightmare for the Nazis in France

As a child, Count Robert Jean-Marie de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat and descendant of an ancient lineage, was not distinguished by good health. His happy childhood was spent in the company of numerous brothers and sisters in a fashionable house in the very center of Paris.

The onset of the Nazi occupation caught the family of young Robert on vacation in the family castle in the suburbs of the capital, and neither his relatives nor he could then imagine that he would become one of the boldest and most effective French saboteurs.

After his father's arrest by the Gestapo, he decided to oppose the collaborationist regime of Vichy and became a living legend of the Resistance: La Rochefoucauld blew up German trains and ammunition factories, disguised himself as a nun to hide from the Nazis, twice escaped the death penalty, but continued the desperate fight until Germany's capitulation in 1945.

This book is not only an accurate chronicle of the military feats of the saboteur count, but also the story of a divided, humiliated, and disgraced France that was able to regain its pride and fight back against its oppressors.