Samuel Beckett was an active member of the French Resistance during WWII, and afterwards twice-decorated for it. In the Fall of 1942 an informer infiltrated Beckett's group, and many of his friends were caught and killed by the Gestapo. Realizing that their cover was blown, Beckett and his companion, Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil put on their coats and left their Paris apartment as if going for a walk. This pretense eventually became a reality: after two months in various Paris hideouts, they fled on foot to a remote mountain village in southeast France, walking by night and sleeping by day. There they waited out the rest of the war. ... FULL STORY »
