Silent Village

The Life and Death of Oradour-sur-Glane

Robert Pike

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The History Press Ltd
25 April 2024

The definitive history of Oradour-sur-Glane, a village ripped apart by tragedy in Nazi-occupied France.

'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 armoured 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.

AUTHOR: Robert Pike is a graduate of the University of Exeter in History and French. His first history book, Defying Vichy, was published by The History Press in 2018. He lives in Worcester.

45 b/w illustrations

By: Robert Pike
Imprint: The History Press Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781803995915
ISBN 10: 1803995912
Publication Date: 25 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

ROBERT PIKE is a graduate of the University of Exeter in History and French. His fascination with the German occupation of France and the Vichy period led to him tracking down former Resistance members and trawling official archives and secondary histories in order to understand the Resistance from the ground up. His quest to tell the stories of the few that acted, and the many others whose actions still remain shrouded in mystery, begins with Defying Vichy.

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Silent Village

The Life and Death of Oradour-sur-Glane

Robert Pike

$39.99

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