Brigitte Friang (1924–2011)
Autore di Parachutes and Petticoats
Sull'Autore
Opere di Brigitte Friang
Regarde-toi qui meurs, Tome 2: La guerre n'a pas de fin — Autore — 1 copia
Una mujer en guerra 1 copia
Opere correlate
Les grandes énigmes de la résistance, dossier No. 2: Le drame de Toulon - Le duel des services spéciaux alliés -Le… (1968) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Friang, Brigitte
- Nome legale
- Friang, Berthe Elizabeth
- Altri nomi
- Friang, Brigitte (Pseudonyme)
Galilée 2 (Pseudonyme) - Data di nascita
- 1924-01-23
- Data di morte
- 2011-03-06
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- French
- Nazione (per mappa)
- France
- Luogo di nascita
- Paris, France
- Luogo di morte
- Apt, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
- Istruzione
- Facultés des sciences et de médecine de Paris (Certificats de biologie, physique et chimie)
Lycée La Fontaine, Paris
Lycée Molière, Paris (1940|1941)
Lycée Janson-de-Sailly, Paris - Attività lavorative
- war correspondent
journalist - Organizzazioni
- ORTF (Correspondante, 19 51, Grand reporter aux actualités télévisées, 19 65 | 19 68)
Afrique Express, Revue belge (Chef du service des informations, 19 61 - 19 65)
André Malraux (Attachée de presse, 19 47 | 19 51 puis 19 58 | 19 59)
Rassemblement du peuple français, RPF, Parti politique (Participation à la création, 19 46) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Grand officier de la Légion d'honneur (2008)
Grand officier de l'ordre national du Mérite
Médaille de la Résistance (1946)
Croix de guerre des Théâtres d'opérations extérieurs
Croix de guerre 1939-1945
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 9
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 17
- Popolarità
- #654,391
- Voto
- 5.0
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 5
The book actually starts with a brief account of Brigitte's activities in occupied France during WWII, as a member of the Resistance. I was immediately captured by her ability to recognise the absurd amongst the awful, such as the German soldier who shot her showing concern for her modesty and apoligising for the calibre used.
This also explains Brigitte's desire to parachute - it's not a whim but a way of responding to her experiences in WWII when help was dropped into France by parachute.
Brigitte's account of her experiences in Vietnam are similarly gripping. She avoids pro-French rhetoric and is actually quite critical of the French powers-that-be while praising the soldier on the ground. I found it impossible not to like her spirit, slogging through the trenches with the soldiers but still unashamedly embracing her femininity.
It's funny, but I'd never connected the occupation of France with the Indochina War before now. We were taught them as separate units in school and that's how they'd always sat in my mind. This book linked them together for me and suggested a fuller, more complex picture.… (altro)