Resistance Trilogy: Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France

from stephengoldenberg

Of all the European nations torn apart by the 2nd world war and its aftermath, France is the one that has had the longest and greatest difficulty in dealing with it. It went through the immediate aftermath of dealing with a long list of collaborators and 'alleged' collaborators, then focusing for...

from baswood

Caroline Moorehead - [Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France] During the second world war some villages in unoccupied France sheltered jews from Nazi persecution. The Vichy government in collaboration with the Germans ruled the unoccupied area which covered roughly half of France. ...

from Icepacklady

This book is very, very well researched and it gives a very good history of the events in France and beyond during WWII. Right at the beginning of the book we are given a cast of characters and a historical timeline of events.What killed me though was that there was SO MUCH background. I guess th...

from Susan.Macura

This is a wonderfully researched look at how a community in one section of France protected a number of Jewish people, especially children, from the Nazis during the occupation. Their heroism is something they themselves did not acknowledge; to them they were simply doing the right thing. To do t...

from Susan.Macura

This is a wonderfully researched look at how a community in one section of France protected a number of Jewish people, especially children, from the Nazis during the occupation. Their heroism is something they themselves did not acknowledge; to them they were simply doing the right thing. To do t...