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- catalog abstract "As Allied troops landed in Normandy in 1944, members of the local French Resistance in the small town of Saint-Amand-Montrond embarked on an ill-fated attempt to liberate their town. Based on noble but politically questionable motives, and failing to inspire broader support, the incident quickly devolved from confrontation to a stand-off and ultimately to a tragedy. Resistance forces took and subsequently executed hostages; their opponents, the milice - collaborationist French police - and German soldiers rounded up 70 Jewish adults and children in retaliation and put many to a horrible death. Eminent literary and cultural critic Tzvetan Todorov examines the episode as history but also as a moral paradigm. Finding similar failures on both sides, he also cites "a qualitative difference between the two, an irreducible asymmetry, which resides in their ideals, in totalitarianism versus democracy." Suspenseful, compelling, and uncompromisingly honest, A French Tragedy goes beyond the events themselves to ponder the nature of sacrifice, of suffering, and of individual responsibility in a world where civil war still thrives.".
- catalog alternative "Tragédie française. English".
- catalog contributor b9663929.
- catalog coverage "Saint-Amand-Mont-Rond (France) History.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "As Allied troops landed in Normandy in 1944, members of the local French Resistance in the small town of Saint-Amand-Montrond embarked on an ill-fated attempt to liberate their town. Based on noble but politically questionable motives, and failing to inspire broader support, the incident quickly devolved from confrontation to a stand-off and ultimately to a tragedy. Resistance forces took and subsequently executed hostages; their opponents, the milice - collaborationist French police - and German soldiers rounded up 70 Jewish adults and children in retaliation and put many to a horrible death. Eminent literary and cultural critic Tzvetan Todorov examines the episode as history but also as a moral paradigm.".
- catalog description "Finding similar failures on both sides, he also cites "a qualitative difference between the two, an irreducible asymmetry, which resides in their ideals, in totalitarianism versus democracy." Suspenseful, compelling, and uncompromisingly honest, A French Tragedy goes beyond the events themselves to ponder the nature of sacrifice, of suffering, and of individual responsibility in a world where civil war still thrives.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-138).".
- catalog extent "xx, 138 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "French tragedy.".
- catalog identifier "0874517478 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "French tragedy.".
- catalog isPartOf "Contemporary French culture and society".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Hanover [N.H.] : Dartmouth College : published by University Press of New England,".
- catalog relation "French tragedy.".
- catalog spatial "France Saint-Amand-Mont-Rond".
- catalog spatial "France Saint-Amand-Mont-Rond.".
- catalog spatial "Saint-Amand-Mont-Rond (France) History.".
- catalog subject "940.54/8144552 20".
- catalog subject "D802.F82 S21496813 1996".
- catalog subject "Mayors France Saint-Amand-Mont-Rond Biography.".
- catalog subject "Sadrin, René.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 France Saint-Amand-Mont-Rond.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, French.".
- catalog title "A French tragedy : scenes of civil war, summer 1944 / Tzvetan Todorov ; translated by Mary Byrd Kelly ; translation edited and annotated by Richard J. Golsan.".
- catalog title "Tragédie française. English".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Personal narratives French. fast".
- catalog type "text".