Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France

Portada
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 10 dic 2008 - 672 páginas
Bad Faith tells the story of one of history’s most despicable villains and con men—Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and “Commissioner for Jewish Affairs” in France’s Vichy government.Darquier set about to eliminate Jews in France with brutal efficiency, delivering 75,000 men, women, and children to the Nazis and confiscating Jewish property, which he used for his own gain. Carmen Callil’s riveting and sometimes darkly comic narrative reveals Darquier as a self-obsessed fantasist who found his metier in propagating hatred—a career he denied to his dying day—and traces the heartrending consequences for his daughter Anne of her poisoned family legacy. A brilliant meld of epic sweep and psychological insight, Bad Faith is a startling history of our times.
 

Índice

Soldiers Heart
3
Scandal and Caprice
4
Baby
5
Shreds and Patches
6
COCK BULL
47
958
49
The Street
88
Fame
107
PART V
348
The Family
371
The Cricket Team
394
Dinosaurs
416
Postscript
435
The Snows of Sigmaringen by Louis Aragon
457
Acknowledgements
467
Notes
473

Pot of Gold
135
On the Rampage
152
Work Family Fatherland
193
Tormenting Men
217
Rats
240
The Rat Pit
262
Death
277
Having Fun
300
Loot
321
11
542
PART III
560
Bibliography and Sources 167
567
Index
589
112
591
135
593
170
594
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Sobre el autor (2008)

Carmen Callil was born in Australia and moved to England, where she began working in the publishing industry. In 1972 she founded Virago, publishing such authors as A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, and Toni Morrison. She was subsequently Managing and Publishing Director of Chatto & Windus, publisher-atlarge for Random House UK, and Director of Channel 4 Television. The recipient of numerous honorary degrees, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and co-author of The Modern Library.

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