"Few survivors now live to tell the story of the six terrible weeks in 1944 when, in the mountain fortress of the Vercors - an isolated plateau near Grenoble in southern France - 4,000 poorly armed French partisans fought a losing battle against 20,000 German troops, artillery, tanks, and aircraft. We had our Alamo, our Valley Forge; the French Resistance had Vercors. Countless messages to the Free French in North Africa, to the British in London, went unanswered. So men of Vercors fought to the end. This book honors their sacrifice. it is one of the few untold stories of the many brave men and women who died for freedom in World War II."--Book Flap