Village of secrets defying the Nazis in Vichy France
Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a small village of scattered houses high in the mountains of the Ardèche. Surrounded by pastures and thick forests of oak and pine, the plateau Vivarais lies in one of the most remote and inaccessible parts of Eastern France, cut off for long stretches of the winter by snow...
| Main Author: | Moorehead, Caroline (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Escaping. Mea culpa
- The camps of shame
- Deportation fever
- A national disgrace
- 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.