Massacre at Oradour, France, 1944

by Jean-Jacques Fouché and David Sices

Book Overview

Near the end of World War II, four days after Allied armies landed at Normandy, a unit of Waffen SS troops en route to that front surrounded the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane and, without warning, systematically massacred its citizens. The Nazi soldiers herded women and children into the village church, machine-gunned them, and set the church on fire while some were still alive. The men were taken to barns in groups, where they were shot...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875806015
• ISBN13: 9780875806013
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher