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Silent Village - Life and Death in Occupied France (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Silent Village - Life and Death in Occupied France (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Loot Price R431
Discovery Miles 4 310
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'Based on eye-witness accounts, Robert Pike's moving book vividly
depicts the lives of the villagers who were caught up in the
tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane and brings their experiences to our
attention for the first time.' - Hanna Diamond, author of Fleeing
Hitler On 10 June 1944, four days after Allied forces landed in
Normandy, the picturesque village of Oradour-sur-Glane in the rural
heart of France was destroyed by an armoured SS Panzer division.
Six hundred and forty-three men, women and children were murdered
in the nation's worst wartime atrocity. Today, Oradour is
remembered as a 'martyred village' and its ruins preserved, but the
stories of its inhabitants lie buried under the rubble of the
intervening decades. Silent Village gathers the powerful
testimonies of survivors in the first account of Oradour as it was
both before the tragedy and in its aftermath. Why this peaceful
community was chosen for extermination has remained a mystery.
Putting aside contemporary hearsay, Nazi rhetoric and revisionist
theories, Robert Pike returns to the archival evidence to narrate
the tragedy as it truly happened - and give voice to the anguish of
those left behind.
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