{"id":4418,"date":"2023-03-16T15:07:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marclevy.com\/livres\/children-of-freedom\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T10:22:52","slug":"children-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"livres","link":"https:\/\/www.marclevy.com\/en\/books\/children-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We are all somebody&#8217;s stranger.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the story of a group of adolescents who were part of a Resistance Brigade during World War II. Barely twenty years of age, many of them were immigrants. What united them was their indestructible belief that freedom was worth fighting for \u2013 that one day Spring would return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In\u00a0<em>Children of Freedom<\/em>, Marc Levy captures the everyday life of Jeannot and his fellow members of the 35th Brigade. This group was based out of Toulouse and it succeeded in resisting the occupying forces, the local militia and collaborating Frenchmen.\u00a0From the very first page to the last, the reader is torn between the hope that the heroes will survive, and the knowledge that their death is almost inevitable. Fast paced, profoundly moving, this novel leaves the reader with the sweet and lingering taste of a playful smile, long after it is finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This novel is based on a true story. The 35th Brigade did exist and it was made up of adolescents, many of whom cried \u201cvive la France\u201d with a foreign accent. One of the members of the Brigade was Marc Levy\u2019s father. His code name was Jeannot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Children of Freedom, Marc Levy captures the everyday life of Jeannot and his fellow members of the 35th Brigade. This novel is based on a true story : one of the members of the Brigade was Marc Levy\u2019s father. His code name was Jeannot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10325,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-4418","livres","type-livres","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marclevy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/livres\/4418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marclevy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/livres"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marclevy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/livres"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marclevy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marclevy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}