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In the 1920s, the electrical engineer Jean Bruller, a young graduate, unexpectedly turned to satirical-philosophical drawing and joined the atelier de la Grande-Chaumière in 1926. Before becoming the celebrated Vercors, he built a successful career as a draftsman and engraver for the press and for fine editions, developing a personal body of work in which…

“Vercors, the best-kept secret of the war,” Aragon said of his friend at the Liberation. La Bataille du silence appeared twenty-five years after Le Silence de la mer: the time it took, no doubt, for him to look back on those years of war and resistance, even one waged through writing. A precious and necessary…

This is a library copy, from the Biblioteca circulante Harrods, the most important circulating library in South America, which held more than 15,000 volumes in constant circulation. Of Anglo-Saxon origin, circulating libraries — the first of which was founded in Edinburgh in 1725 — expanded greatly during the nineteenth century with the development of the…

Published in London and prefaced by Maurice Druon, under the patronage of General de Gaulle, by Claude Divonne de Boisgelin for Les Cahiers du Silence.Divonne de Boisgelin directed the information services of the FFL in London. Dated 25 July 1943 — the same day as the second Éditions de Minuit edition — it followed by…

The text was published by Jacques Schiffrin based on the London edition, the only one to which he had access. He followed the text as it had appeared in April 1943 in La Revue du monde libre, reproducing its table of contents, to which he added Druon's preface, taken from the London edition published by…