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Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
By Moorehead, Caroline
- ISBN
- 9780062202475 9780062202499
- Publisher
- Harper
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Starred Review on October 15, 2014 | Social Sciences
For the small village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, World War II was both a terrifying and exhilarating time. Living in the remote mountainous region of eastern France, the village's historically Huguenot population was not unfamiliar with religious persecution. When the dispossessed of Europe—including Jewish refugees and orphans, as well as escaping prisoners of war and French Resistance fighters—began, in 1942, to find thei...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
