Village Of Secrets: Defying The Nazis In Vichy France By Caroline
Moorehead (Paperback, 2015)

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014 From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the Gestapo during World War II High up in the mountains of the southern Massif Central in France lies a cluster of tiny remote villages united by a long & particular history During the Nazi occupation the inhabitants of the Plateau Vivarais Lignon saved several thousand people from the concentration camps As the victims of Nazi persecution flooded in
- resisters freemasons communists & Jews many of them children
- the villagers united to keep them safe The story of why & how these villages came to save so many people has never been fully told But several of the remarkable architects of the mission are still alive as are a number of those they saved Caroline Moorehead has sought out & interviewed many of the people involved in this extraordinary undertaking & brings us their unforgettable testimonies It is a story of courage & determination of a small number of heroic individuals who risked their lives to save others & of what can be done when people come together to oppose tyranny