Armstrong has translation published of 'Great Misery'

Jeanne Armstrong, a professor in Western Libraries at Western Washington University, recently published her translation of "La grand misère" ("Great Misery") with the University of Nebraska Institutional Repository Zea Press as an open access e-book available in print on demand. "Great Misery" is Maisie Renault’s story, as the editor's cover note relays, of her nine months in this “man-made hell, where brutality, starvation, sickness, filth, and degradation took a daily toll on women whose principal offense was having opposed the Nazi regime. Maisie’s story, however, is one of loyalty, devotion, faith, endurance, and the loving and self-sacrificing support that her circle of women gave each other, allowing some of them to survive the horribly cruel and inhumane conditions. Published in French in 1948, this is the first English translation of this survivor’s account of life inside an SS concentration camp and the indomitable spirit that bound these women together and allowed them to emerge hurt, sick, battered, but unbroken and unafraid to testify about what they saw.”