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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 armored 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.
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 armored 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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"'A triumph of detailed research, historical insight and empathy ... a brilliant reconstruction of lives and relationships before the horror struck' -- Rod Kedward"
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