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Present ed by Dr. Linda De Roche.
\nIn 1941\, an increasing number of Allied aircraft were being shot down in Nazi-occupied Europe. Although most down ed airmen were killed or taken prisoner\, some evaded capture and were she ltered by Allied sympathizers and the emerging resistance movement to Germ an rule. Their road of safety&mdash\;and frequently to fight again&mdash\; was a treacherous journey by train\, by bicycle\, and on foot that stretch ed hundreds of miles\, from Belgium\, across occupied France\, to the Pyre nees Mountains at the Spanish border. This presentation will focus especia lly on the 24-year-old Belgian André\;e de Jongh and the American Vi rginia d&rsquo\;Albert-Lake.
\nDr. Linda De Roche is Professor Emeri ta of English and American Studies at Wesley College\, Dover\, De\, where she taught courses in American literature\, American studies\, and gender studies. She has published on F. Scott Fitzgerald\, Willa Cather\, Edith W harton\, and the jazz age (as well as other topics) and edited a four-volu me reference work on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literatu re. She is currently pursuing her interest in unconventional women through her research on Mrs. Victor Bruce\, a contemporary of Amelia Earhart\, wh o held land\, air\, and speed records during the early twentieth century.< /p>\n
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