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10%OFFJean-Jacques Fouché - Massacre at Oradour, France, 1944: Coming to Grips with Terror - 9780875806013 - V9780875806013
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Massacre at Oradour, France, 1944: Coming to Grips with Terror

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Description for Massacre at Oradour, France, 1944: Coming to Grips with Terror Paperback. Near the end of World War II, four days after Allied armies landed at Normandy, a unit of Waffen SS en route to the front surrounded the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane and, without warning, massacred its citizens. In an effort to come to grips with this tragedy, Jean-Jacques Fouche explores the massacre from several points of. Translator(s): Sices, David; Atkinson, James B. Num Pages: 286 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.

Near the end of World War II, four days after Allied armies landed at Normandy, a unit of Waffen SS troops en route to that front surrounded the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane and, without warning, systematically massacred its citizens. The Nazi soldiers herded women and children into the village church, machine-gunned them, and set the church on fire while some were still alive. The men were taken to barns in groups, where they were shot. Afterward, the Nazis plundered the village and burned it to the ground. Altogether, more than 640 men, women, and children died in Oradour that day.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
287
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780875806013
SKU
V9780875806013
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Jean-Jacques Fouché
Jean-Jacques Fouché, the first director of the Centre de la Mémoire d'Oradour, recently completed a new book on Oradour and justice. Currently he is working on radio and television documentatires on the tragedy of Oradour and memory.

Reviews for Massacre at Oradour, France, 1944: Coming to Grips with Terror
Fundamentally excellent history, with an unusual style and a mastery of telling detail. Fouché's work carries a sense of immediacy, of real people struggling with fateful events.
Harvey Smith, Northern Illinois University A remarkable achievement.... A very readable and gripping account of the most infamous German atrocity committed on French soil.
David Allen Harvey, author of Constructing Class ... Read more A most valuable contribution to truth.
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