The Anchored Heart is a chronicle of an occupied but unconquered people during WWII. For twelve years, Ida Treat lived with her husband on Île-de-Bréhat, an island off the coast of Brittany—a world unto itself—until the fall of France in 1940 brought Nazi soldiers to her doorstep. The island became a miniature stage for the civil resistance that took place in much of France. First published in 1941, while the war in Europe was still raging, the book tells of story of the island’s farmers, shopkeepers, fishers, and people and old—all of whom believed in victory against the Nazis. “[The Anchored Heart] leaves the reader with the conviction that it will take more than Hitler and Pétain and Darlan to down the people of Brittany, or to rob them of their courage, their integrity, and their wit.” — The Atlantic About the author: Ida Treat (1889–1978) was born in Joliet, Illinois. After her undergraduate at Western Reserve University, she went to France and completed her doctorate at the University of Paris. In 1913, she returned to the US and taught romance languages at Western Reserve before returning to France in the 1920s, working as a writer and journalist until the outbreak of WWII. She was a member of the French Mission of Information in London between 1943-1946, and in 1948 became Professor of English at Vassar College, where she taught writing until 1954. Her work appeared in Harper’s , The Nation , and The New Yorker , where she published regularly for twenty years. She was the author of three books, Primitive Hearths in the Pyrenees (1927), a guidebook, Pearls, Arms, and Hashish (1931), about the adventures of French smuggler Henry de Monfreid, and The Anchored Heart , a memoir of life on an island off the coast of Brittany, during the Nazi occupation.