"Told here for the first time is one of the most inspiriting episodes of World War II. Ange-Marie Miniconi, and the Resistance fighters whom he organized and led, fought with daring and valor against the German occupiers. Disrupting rail traffic, manning secret radio transmitters, sabotaging factories, providing safehouses for downed airmen and other fugitives from the Germans, taking revenge on traitors, Miniconi was a scourge to the invaders. Perhaps his most amazing military coup was saving Cannes from annihilation by convincing the Germans that they are helplessly surrounded by partisans. Men and women alike bore torture and death. Based on prodigious research and hundreds of hours of interviews with Miniconi himself, Peter Leslie's Liberation of the Riviera fills in an important omission in the history of World War II."