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Village of secrets : defying the Nazis in Vichy France / Caroline Moorehead

By:

Moorehead, Caroline

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2014Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 374 p. : illus. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780062202475

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DDC classification:

940.5344 MOO

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.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	940.5344 MOO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	non fiction		002671

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-349) and index.

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.

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