Not the Germans Alone: A Son's Search for the Truth of Vichy - Softcover

Levendel, Isaac

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810118432 ISBN 13: 9780810118430

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Winner of the Prix Franco-Européen

On the eve of D-Day, Isaac Levendel's mother left her hiding place on a farm in southern France and never returned. After 40 years of silence and torment, he returned to France in 1990 determined to find out what had happened. This is the story of how, with perseverance, luck, and official help, he gained access to secret wartime documents laying bare the details of French collaboration-and the truth about his mother's fate.

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About the Author

Levendel moved from France to Israel in 1957 to study engineering, teach school, and live on a kibbutz. He married shortly after, and in 1974 he, his wife, and their children moved to the U.S. He is a computer scientist.

Robert O. Paxton is professor of history emeritus at Columbia University. A specialist in the history of western Europe in the era of the two world wars, he has written extensively on France under Nazi occupation, including VICHY FRANCE: OLD GUARD AND NEW ORDER (Columbia University Press, 2001) and VICHY FRANCE AND THE JEWS (Stanford University Press, 1995). His most recent work is THE ANATOMY OF FASCISM (Alfred Knopf, 2004).

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810118432
• ISBN 13: 9780810118430
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 341