Village of secrets: defying the Nazis in Vichy France / Caroline Moorehead
2014, 1st U.S. edition. New York, NY: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #236721
Description; 374 pages: illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Decorated end-pages. Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-349) and index. Notes; "Originally published in Great Britain in 2014 by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Random House Group Ltd."--Title page verso. Summary; Relates the story of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small, remote mountain village whose inhabitants banded together to save thousands from the Gestapo during World War II. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a small village of scattered houses high in the mountains of the Ardèche, one of the most remote and inaccessible parts of Eastern France. During the Second World War, the inhabitants of this tiny mountain village and its parishes saved thousands wanted by the Gestapo: resisters, freemasons, communists, OSS and SOE agents, and Jews. Many of those they protected were orphaned children and babies whose parents had been deported to concentration camps. Moorehead paints an inspiring portrait of what was accomplished when a small group of people banded together to oppose their Nazi occupiers. Contents; Part 1. Escaping. Mea culpa -- The camps of shame -- Deportation fever -- A national disgrace -- Part 2. Arriving. Walking near the Lord -- A pure spirit -- On Vichy's map -- Rats in a trap -- An open pen of chickens -- A lethal year -- An unknown and unknowable oblivion -- Crossing the border -- Living on a volcano -- Whatever else we do, we must save the children -- Perfect Maquis country -- Today, I have nothing to say -- Memory wars. Subjects; Jews rescue (1939-1945 : World War). World War (1939-1945). 1900 - 1999; World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France--Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Underground movements, War. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (France)--History--20th century. France--Haute-Loire. France--Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
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