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“romain slocombe”

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  • Monsieur Le Commandant

    by Romain Slocombe ...
    Translated by Jesse Browner ...
    French Academician and Nazi sympathiser, Paul-Jean Husson, writes a letter to his local SS officer in the autumn of 1942.Tormented by an illicit passion for Ilse, his German daughter-in-law, Husson has taken a decision that will devastate several lives, including his own.The letter explains why. It is a dramatic and sometimes harrowing story that begins in the years leading up to the war, when the ... Read more

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  • The Wolves at the Door

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  • The Spies of Warsaw

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    by Alan Furst ...
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  • Village of Secrets

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    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    From the author of the runaway bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands, including many Jewish children, who were pursued by the Gestapo during World War II.Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a small village of scattered houses high in the mountains of the Ardèche. Surrounded by pastures and thick forests of oak and pine, the plateau Vivarais ... Read more

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  • And There Was Light

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  • Les Parisiennes

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    Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored democracy, and rejected the modern world outright. To Reck the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag, and helpless as he was to counter the spell they had cast on the German people, he felt compelled to record the ... Read more

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  • Petit Claude: the Orphan of Auschwitz

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