Silent Village: Life and Death in Occupied France

by Robert Pike and Robert Pike

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 are preserved, but the stories of its inhabitants lie buried under the rubble of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750991348
• ISBN13: 9780750991346
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"