One Day in France - Tragedy and Betrayal in an Occupied Village

April 6, 1944. A detachment of German soldiers arrive in a rural French town, hunting down resistance fighters, many of whom are hiding in the region. More than sixty years later, the villagers clearly remember the day when four peasants from a nearby village were taken hostage and shot as an example to others. But do they remember the whole story? Jean-Marie Borzeix sets out to investigate the events of Holy Thursday 1944, and to reveal the hidden truths of that fateful day. He uncovers the story of a mysterious ''fifth man'' shot alongside the resisters and eventually unravels a trail which leads him to Paris, Israel and into the darkest corners of the Holocaust in France. A captivating story, the events of this day in a small, entirely typical, town illuminate the true impact of World War II in France.>

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• Authors: Jean-Marie Borzeix, Borzeix Jean-Marie
• Assisted by: Caroline Moorehead (Foreword), Gay McAuley (Translation), McAuley Gay (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.02.2021
• EAN: 9781350241718
• ISBN: 978-1-350-24171-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; France, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater