Silence of the Sea / Le Silence de la Mer: A Novel of French Resistance during the Second World War by ‘Vercors

This first bilingual edition of France’s most enduring wartime novel introduces Vercors’s famous tale to a generation without personal experience of World War II who may not be able to read it in its original language. Now available in paperback, readers are assisted with a historical and literary introduction, explanatory notes, a glossary of French terms and a select bibliography.