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A Village Betrayed

By: Louise Croft
Narrated by: Cherry McIntosh
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A poignant story of the impact of war on a defenceless French village during the Second World War. Four courageous villagers join the Maquis, the Resistance in Vichy occupied France, to protect their families. They are swept into a treacherous conflict where one false word or brave action can result in the torture and death of people they know and love. One old man and a young girl survive the savage destruction that wipes out the whole community.

This novel uses the recorded history of the devastation of many rural villages in the Aveyron, Lot and Tarn departments of the Midi-Pyrénées. Oradour-sur-Glane in the Haute-Vienne Department is a famous memorial to the brutality of the Second World War.

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This is a book of light and dark, being a novel based on the changes that naturally happen during a war and subsequent occupation is very thought provoking – what would you do?

From the joys of countryside life and its apparently close-knit community in a small village outside Paris to its metamorphosis of the people as the grim clouds of war and the impact of the Nazi invasion in the early years of WW2.

You will simply be drawn in by the sumptuous vocals of Cherry Mackintosh from her impeccable french accent to punctuate just where we are based, of three main characters and the background participants fleshed out with her vocal talent as the story unfolds.

Whether it was the brutal Gendarmerie corrupt and turncoat, the bravery of the
resistance or the children dragged away from their loving families this narrator brings us to them all.

This may be about the past wartime but it could easily be the portrayal of more modern conflict as although fiction – ‘A Village Betrayed’ is based on actual accounts.
There is only once phrase to use for this performer – Cest magnifique ! – Download it today the writer could not have chosen a better reader.

War changes lives

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