Voices from the Dark Years: The Truth About Occupied France 1940-1945

What was life really like in German-occupied France during the Second World War? Douglas Boyd paints the clearest picture yet, using hitherto unpublished first-person accounts of ordinary men and women who lived through this extraordinary and dangerous time, when a few made fortunes, but most went cold and hungry. Less than 1 per cent of the French was pro-German. Is it pure coincidence that the same percentage actively resisted the Germans despite knowing that, if caught, their husbands, wives and children were considered equally culpable under the brutal Teutonic principle of Sippenhaft
guilt by association? Using new, meticulously researched material, Douglas Boyd tells an enthralling and sometimes chilling narrative history of the Occupation, as lived by the French people. It is a record of great heroism and ultimate cruelty. Read it and ask yourself, ‘How would I have reacted, living in Occupied France?’ The answer may surprise you. AUTHOR: Douglas Boyd, a former international businessman and BBC television producer, has lived in France for more than thirty years and personally interviewed hundreds of survivors of the German occupation. His books have been translated into seventeen languages. SELLING POINTS: . Previously unpublished interviews and material . Author is a respected authority on the history of occupied France 16pp b/w prints