Oradour-sur-Glane

Book Review: Silent Village, Robert Pike

1st July 2021 Roger Ackroyd 0

There have been a number of books on the disaster that overran Oradour-sur-Glane on Saturday June 10th 1944 but this is the first one that I have read that finely details the lives of the [more…]

A Massacre of the Innocents

17th April 2020 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction On Saturday 10 June, 1944, while heading north towards Normandy to help counter the Allied D-Day invasion, German troops of the Der Führer Regiment of the SS Panzer Division Das Reich, committed an unthinkable [more…]

Book Review: Silent Village, Robert Pike

A Massacre of the Innocents

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