A Packhorse Called Rachel | Marcelle Kellermann

#ads Get premium access to stream any unabridged audiobook by starting your free trial: https://booksreader.space/al-6883/ Title: A Packhorse Called Rachel Author: Marcelle Kellermann Narrator: Barbara Kellermann Format: Unabridged Length: 05:17:00 Release date: 09-04-08 Genres: Personal Journals Publisher's Summary: The account is based on personal experience, and the description of historical events is as true as memory will allow. It is beautifully written and at the same time captures the painful and lonely reality of life in the Maquis. Although all names have been changed, the writing includes some fine characterisations of the friends and foes the heroine meets and it describes the hardships resistance fighters, the Maquis, in the Auvergne had to face, the climate prevailing in winter, the Vichy traitors, and the hostility of ordinary people in Vichy France. 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 love and its tragic loss, and yet she triumphs. 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.