{"product_id":"massacre-at-oradour-france-1944-coming-to-grips-with-terror-paperback-softback-9780875806013","title":"Massacre at Oradour, France, 1944; Coming to Grips with Terror (Paperback \/ softback) 9780875806013","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMassacre at Oradour, France, 1944\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eComing to Grips with Terror\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJean-Jacques Fouché (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780875806013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 November 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e287 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFundamentally 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.\u003c\/p\u003e - Harvey Smith, Northern Illinois University \u003cp\u003eA remarkable achievement.... A very readable and gripping account of the most infamous German atrocity committed on French soil.\u003c\/p\u003e - David Allen Harvey, author of \u003ci\u003eConstructing Class and Nationality in Alsace\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003eA most valuable contribution to truth.\u003c\/p\u003e (The European Legacy)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNear 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean-Jacques Fouché explores the massacre from several points of view—religious or ethnic differences, the background and training of the Nazi soldiers, and German suspicions that villagers sheltered Jewish and Spanish anti-fascist refugees. Probing the most shocking massacre in World War II France, he shows how memory affects our understanding of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Translators' Note\u003cbr\u003e Maps\u003cbr\u003e 1. What is Known about the Massacre?\u003cbr\u003e 2. The War Culture of the Waffen SS\u003cbr\u003e 3. The SS Das Reich Division in France\u003cbr\u003e 4. A Hot Spot: The Massif Central\u003cbr\u003e 5. Was Oradour Just an Ordinary Village?\u003cbr\u003e 6. Account of the Massacre\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Victims\u003cbr\u003e 8. Conflicting Accounts\u003cbr\u003e 9. Souviens-Toi-Remember\u003cbr\u003e Afterword—Oradour-Sur-Glane, July 16, 1999-Opening Ceremony\u003cbr\u003e Glossary of Abbreviations and Foreign Terms\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52743744487704,"sku":"9780875806013","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/massacre-at-oradour-france-1944-coming-to-grips-with-terror-paperback-softback-9780875806013","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}