General's Niece

"My dear Uncle Charles," twenty-two-year-old Genevieve de Gaulle wrote on May 6, 1943. "Maybe you have already heard about the different events affecting the family." The general''s brother Pierre had been taken by the Gestapo; his brother Xavier, Genevieve''s father, had escaped to Switzerland. Genevieve asked her uncle where she could be most useful—France? England? A French territory? When no r...