{"product_id":"robert-pike-silent-village-2024-paperback","title":"Robert Pike: Silent Village [2024] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e'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.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e - Hanna Diamond, author of \u003cem\u003eFleeing Hitler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e Six hundred and forty-three men, women and children were murdered in the nation's worst wartime atrocity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, Oradour is remembered as a 'martyred village' and its ruins are preserved, but the stories of its inhabitants lie buried under the rubble of the intervening decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSilent Village\u003c\/em\u003e gathers the powerful testimonies of survivors in the first account of Oradour as it was both before the tragedy and in its aftermath. A lost way of life is vividly recollected in this unique insight into the traditions, loves and rivalries of a typical village in occupied France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy this peaceful community was chosen for extermination has remained a mystery. Putting aside contemporary hearsay, Nazi rhetoric and revisionist theories, in this updated third edition 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pike, Robert","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53203635175763,"sku":"9781803995915","price":22.1,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53203635208531,"sku":"XV81803995915","price":8.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/pike-robert-robert-pike-silent-village-2024-paperback-1226680612.jpg?v=1773085178","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/robert-pike-silent-village-2024-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}