Five historical fiction books about resistance

Rachel Brittain is a writer, Day Dreamer, and Amateur Aerialist. Her short fiction has appeared in Luna Station Quarterly, Andromeda Spaceways, and others. She is a contributing editor for Book Riot, where she screams into the void about her love of books. Brittain lives in Northwest Arkansas with a rambunctious rescue pup, a snake, and a houseful of plants (most of which aren’t carnivorous).

At Book Riot she tagged "five historical fiction books [which] depict resistance against violence and authoritarianism in many forms." One entry on the list:

The Woman With No Name by Audrey Blake

A middle-aged woman overlooked by everyone around her is recruited by British Intelligence to become their first female sabotage agent in France. Yvonne Rudellat thinks her life is over when her apartment is bombed, but somehow she survives. With her home in Britain destroyed and her childhood home of France under Nazi rule, Yvonne decides it’s time to fight back. But no one believes a middle-aged woman will do any good for the war effort, even on the home front. It’s exactly that attitude that will make her the perfect undercover agent. The book is based on the life of a real woman who fought in the French Resistance during WWII, a fact which her family only learned after her death.

Read about the other books on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue