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.
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, ...