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By Sandra Ott

In post-liberation France, the French courts judged the situations of a couple of hundred thousand humans accused of helping and abetting the enemy through the moment global conflict. during this interesting e-book, Sandra Ott uncovers the hidden heritage of collaboration within the Pyrenean borderlands of the Basques and the Béarnais in southwestern France via 9 tales of human folly, uncertainty, ambiguity, ambivalence, wish, vengeance, duplicity, greed, self-interest, opportunism and betrayal. overlaying either the career and liberation sessions, she finds how the book's characters grew to become concerned with the occupiers for quite a few purposes, starting from a wish to settle rankings and to realize entry to energy, cash and fabric rewards, to like, friendship, worry and desperation. those wartime lives and next postwar reckonings supply us with a brand new lens in which to appreciate human habit less than the tough stipulations of career, and the next look for retribution and justice.

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