A rural community that resisted Vichy's viciousness

Village of Secrets Defying the Nazis in Vichy France. By Caroline Moorehead. Chatto & Windus, €19. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger.

Le Chambon-sur-Lignon: it became a haven for Jews fleeing from the Nazis during World War II. Picture: Getty

Village of Secrets Defying the Nazis in Vichy France

**By** Caroline Moorehead

**Chatto & Windus,** €19

**Reviewed by** Dermot Bolger

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If the central story behind this fascinating book became a Hollywood movie, it would probably be very linear and reconstructed around one heroic central figure. Stalin noted that while one death was a tragedy, a million deaths were merely a statistic; when faced with the atrocities that occurred during World War II, ...