{"product_id":"book-bhk5","title":"Village of Secrets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Le Chambon has long been mythologized in France for the actions of its inhabitants… . But, as this riveting history shows, the story is more complex… . If the picture Moorhead paints is messier than the myth, this only serves to enhance the heroism of the main actors.”— \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the author of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eA Train in Winter\u003c\/em\u003e comes the absorbing story of a French village that helped save thousands hunted by the Gestapo during World War II—told in full for the first time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLe Chambon-sur-Lignon is a small village of scattered houses high in the mountains of the Ardèche, one of the most remote and inaccessible parts of Eastern France. During the Second World War, the inhabitants of this tiny mountain village and its parishes saved thousands wanted by the Gestapo: resisters, freemasons, communists, OSS and SOE agents, and Jews. Many of those they protected were orphaned children and babies whose parents had been deported to concentration camps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith unprecedented access to newly opened archives in France, Britain, and Germany, and interviews with some of the villagers from the period who are still alive, Caroline Moorehead paints an inspiring portrait of courage and determination: of what was accomplished when a small group of people banded together to oppose their Nazi occupiers. A thrilling and atmospheric tale of silence and complicity, \u003cem\u003eVillage of Secrets\u003c\/em\u003e reveals how every one of the inhabitants of Chambon remained silent in a country infamous for collaboration. Yet it is also a story about mythmaking, and the fallibility of memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major contribution to WWII history, illustrated with black-and-white photos, \u003cem\u003eVillage of Secrets\u003c\/em\u003e sets the record straight about the events in Chambon, and pays tribute to a group of heroic individuals, most of them women, for whom saving others became more important than their own lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49345245249840,"sku":"BDbhk5","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/bhk5-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776916857","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bhk5","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}