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Over the fifteen years Bailey has been living in the region, the more she realised she didn't know, and people did not want her to know, about the war; about the French during the Occupation, the real role of the Resistance, the level of collaboration, the concentration camps in the…
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With the help of the life stories of some of the people who used to live in her Pyrenean home, Rosemary Bailey provides a digestible overview of the succession of tragic events that affected the French side of the Pyrenees between the end of the Spanish Civil War and the liberation of France at the end of the Second World War.
We meet refugees of many types, heroes of the Resistance, Allied airmen, and collaborators who were all caught up in the political and military turmoil of the period. We also discover the tragic story of the concentration camps that…
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