1944, shortly after the battle for the Vercors, the area was liberated from German control by the Americans and the FFI. The Vercors Massif is a roughly triangular-shaped...

The Vercors massif (French pronunciation: [vɛʁkɔʁ]; Occitan: Vercòrs) are a range in France consisting of rugged plateaus and mountains straddling the...

of northern France and his texts were published using the pseudonym Vercors (though he used this name for works published before the 1944 Battle of Vercors)...

artillery, and liberal use of landmines. A force of 4,000 French Resistance (FFI) fighters proclaimed the Free Republic of Vercors opposing the German army...

two different speeches delivered by General Charles de Gaulle of France in the context of liberation after the Normandy landings in June 1944 and also...

guerrilla warfare. The most important anti-partisan action was the Battle of Vercors. The most infamous one was the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre. Other notable...

2017). "Le Vercors résistant". vercors-resistance.fr (in French). Association nationale des pionniers et combattants volontaires du Vercors. Retrieved...

vows as a Jesuit in 1935. As a member of the French Resistance, he served as a chaplain at the Battle of Vercors and was executed by the Gestapo. As a...

Dunkerque in Lambersart and in the Citadel laid down their arms. The Battle of Lille officially ended on June 1, when French soldiers were marched through...

the Villard-de-Lans is an emblematic cow of the Vercors Regional Park and is also associated with Bleu du Vercors-Sassenage, a cheese promoted to AOC status...

was seriously wounded while leading a Zouave bayonet charge during the Battle of St. Quentin on 30 August 1914, and was left for dead on the field. He...

The Battle of Gazala, also the Gazala Offensive (Italian: Battaglia di Ain el-Gazala) was fought near the village of Gazala during the Western Desert Campaign...

outbreak of the First World War as a private and by 1915 had completed his officer training and later fought at the Battle of Verdun. During the course of the...

commemorating Gaston Valois at the place of his arrest. Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation à Grenoble Battle of Vercors Police collaboration in Vichy France...

The Battle of Bir Hakeim (Arabic pronunciation: [biʔr ħaˈkiːm] ) took place at Bir Hakeim, an oasis in the Libyan desert south and west of Tobruk, during...

the remaining German army in the final engagement of the Battle of Normandy. This final carnage of the German army was later called the Falaise Pocket...

"Travel to America with Vercors (1961-1962)" "Words of Vercors," preface (2004) Vercors (1984). Vercors, Les Nouveaux Jours. Plon. p. 143. "Faire-part de décès"...

the Battle for the Vercors 1944. London: William Collins. p. 97. ISBN 978-0007520817. Coustaury, Alain (July 2006). "PLAQUES AUX BARRAQUES-EN-VERCORS"....

English titles Silence of the Sea and Put Out the Light, is a French novella written in 1941 by Jean Bruller under the pseudonym "Vercors". Published secretly...

September 1944, and which had participated in operations against the maquis of Vercors. The division was stationed in France until the Italian surrender when...

Appeal of 18 June (French: L'Appel du 18 juin) was the first speech made by Charles de Gaulle after his arrival in London in 1940 following the Battle of France...

Grenoble, Paris, Vassieux-en-Vercors, and l’Île de Sein. Amongst the 1,036 Companions of the Order, 65 were killed before the end of the war (8 May 1945) and...

Gapençais the Dévoluy the Vercors the Bochaine the Baronnies The second included: the County of Albon with the Viennois around the city of Vienne, annexed in...

During World War II: Vercors Plateau redoubt used by the Free French Forces A national redoubt is an area to which the remnant forces of a nation can be withdrawn...

were able to counterattack in southeast France. On the Vercors Massif, the Maquis du Vercors rose up with some 4,000 soldiers against the German occupiers...

of Vercors. Huet served as Military Chief of the Vercors Maquis and was instrumental in the crafting of Operation Montagnard which turned the Vercors Massif...

of Franz Kutschera Montagnards (1944) – FFI action to establish base in Vercors Massif Cadillac (1944) – airborne supply operation to FFI in Vercors Massif...

middle of June, the Wehrmacht had taken the village of Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte from the Maquis du Vercors, which severed the link between the Vercors plateau...

alongside the Milice Allies Maquis des Glières – resistance group Maquis du Vercors – resistance group "usurped title". Archived from the original on 21 July...

rank of captain became permanent. In late October, he returned to command of 10th company. As a company commander at Douaumont (during the Battle of Verdun)...