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This novel is based on the massacre by the SS of a small town in France during World War II, called Oradour-sur-Glane. Some of the perpetrators were French citizens - Alsatians drafted into the SS. They were put on trial in 1953 for taking part - under duress, it was claimed - in the horrendous killings and destruction of that peaceful village. Upon the order of President Charles de Gaulle, the town was kept as the Nazis had left it and is a national monument. Professor Eugčne Desfosseux, a historian and self-taught ventriloquist, conjures amid the ruins figures from deep into his past and records the interviews and interrogations in a tale that epitomizes what this or any other war crime might encompass - including his own daily life of pleasures, romance and memories inflamed to a vengeance that would destroy his life's work.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Adventure War & combat fiction

• Full title: Crimes of War
• Author: Neil Rolde
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9781882190409
• ISBN: 9781882190409
• ID: 10813987
• Publisher: Polar Bear & Company
• Weight: 399 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. November 2015

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