Oradour-sur-Glane: Silent Village

Robert Pike


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Paid: £100 + expenses
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History
Updated:
28th October 2024

"Based on eye-witness accounts, Robert Pike’s moving book vividly depicts the lives of the villagers who were caught up in the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane and brings their experiences to our attention for the first time" ​Hanna Diamond, author of Fleeing Hitler

A talk about my research on the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, destroyed by the SS Panzer Division Das Reich on 10 June 1944. Based on the book Silent Village: The Life and Death of Oradour-sur-Glane (The History Press, 2021). Oradour s'est tu (2024, Flammarion) was an Amazon bestseller in France.

Robert Pike has produced a highly readable and fascinating account of French life under the Occupation, illuminating through the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane one of the darkest moments in France’s dark years. Chris Millington, author of France in the Second World War: Collaboration, Resistance, Holocaust, Empire

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About Robert Pike

I have authored two books about the Second World War and the occupation in France. Defying Vichy: Blood, Fear and French Resistance (The History Press, 2018) and Silent Village: The Life and Death of Oradour-sur-Glane ( The History Press, 2021) published in French as Oradour s'est tu: Le destin tragique d'un village français 10 juin 1944 (Flammarion,2024) . I gained an ESRC-funded MSc at Cardiff in 2021 with a dissertation titled 'From pragmatism to protection: How and why were anti-Semitic narratives contested in a semi-rural region of Vichy France?'. I have written articles for History Today and BBC Magazine, contributed to others in The Telegraph and The Daily Mail (UK), and The Washington Post and New York Times (US). My work on Oradour-sur-Glane has led to television appearances on France 2 and M6. I have given conferences in Limoges and Oradour-sur-Glane, and many venues in the UK including the Gloucester History Festival. I have also contributed papers to conferences about resistance at Oxford University and Cardiff University. www.robertpike.co.uk


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