This is the diary by a key female member of the French Resistance in WWII. Agnes Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Humbert was stirred to action by the atrocities she witnessed. She joined forces with several colleagues to form an organized resistance. In the throes of their struggle for freedom, the members of Humbert's group were betrayed to the Gestapo; Humbert herself was imprisoned. Humbert describes her time in prison, her deportation to Germany, where for more than two years she endured a string of brutal labor camps, and the horror of discovering that seven of her friends were executed by a firing squad. But through the direst of conditions, and ill health in the labor camps, Humbert retains hope for herself, for her friends, and for humanity.--From publisher description.