- Brigitte Friang
Brigitte Friang is a French journalist and writer.
She was born in Paris in 1924 and immediately after leaving school in Paris in 1943 joined the French resistance. Friang (1958), 12–24.] Working in the same group as Colonel
F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas , she was captured by theGestapo , shot while trying to escape, then taken toFresnes Prison and tortured, before being deported toRavensbrück concentration camp .Fall, 138.]After the war, she was liberated and returned to Paris where she worked for four years as a press aide to
André Malraux , before becoming a journalist. In 1953, she was sent toFrench Indochina as a war correspondent. Friang (1958), 25–27.] There she undertook parachute training and was dropped, in the opening hours ofOperation Castor , intoDien Bien Province , in the north-west corner of Vietnam. [Simpson, 29.] She survived the war and returned to Paris where she worked as a writer and journalist until her retirement.Notes and sources
* Fall, Barnard. 2005. "Street Without Joy". Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 978-1844153183
* Simpson, Howard R. 1994. "Dien Bien Phu: The Epic Battle America Forgot". London: Brassey's. ISBN 978-1574880243Published works
* Friang, Brigitte. Trans. Cadel, James. 1958. "Parachutes and Petticoats". London: Jarrolds.
* Friang, Brigitte. 1955. "Les Fleurs du ciel". Paris: Robert Laffont. ISBN 978-2221023341
* Friang, Brigitte. 1976. "La Mousson de la liberté. Vietnam, du colonialisme au stalinisme". Paris: Plon. (ISBN 978-2259001663
* Friang, Brigitte. 1977. "Un Autre Malraux". Paris: Plon. ISBN 978-2259002745
* Friang, Brigitte. 1978. "Regarde-toi qui meurs" (2 Vols) Paris: France Loisirs. ISBN
* Friang, Brigitte. 2001. "Petit tour autour de Malraux". Paris: Félin. ISBN 978-2866454135
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