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26%OFFCarmen Callil - Bad Faith - 9780099498285 - V9780099498285
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Bad Faith

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Description for Bad Faith Paperback. Tells the story of one of history's despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who dissembled his way to power in the Vichy government and was responsible for sending thousands of children to the gas chambers. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; BGH; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 46. Weight in Grams: 408.

Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who dissembled his way to power in the Vichy government and was responsible for sending thousands of children to the gas chambers. After the war he left France, never to be brought to justice.

Early on in his career Louis married the alcoholic Myrtle Jones from Tasmania, equally practised in the arts of fantasy and deception, and together they had a child, Anne whom they abandoned in England. Her tragic story is woven through ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099498285
SKU
V9780099498285
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Carmen Callil
Carmen Callil was born and educated in Melbourne, Australia, and came to the UK in 1960. In 1972 she founded Virago and ten years later became Managing Director of Chatto & Windus. In 1994 she was awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Sheffield, York, Oxford Brookes and The Open University. In 1996 she chaired the judging panel of the ... Read more

Reviews for Bad Faith
A superb exploration of the fractured mind of French anti-Semitism
Simon Heffer
Literary Review
The story she has uncovered is so strange and powerful that it would be an unusual reader who was not profoundly moved
Kathryn Hughes
Mail on Sunday
A work of phenomenally thorough, generous and humane scholarship....Callil understands anguish, and lays ... Read more

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