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Beyond The Darkness: Crimes from Another Era

By Mihran Mavian, Trans. Mike Jempson
Initially a memoir/diary of the experiences of Armenian communist,the book was first published in Armenian in 1976. It covers Mavian’s experiences between 1944 and 1947. In particular his involvement with the French Resistance, his arrest and incarceration in Compiègne prison and his incredible odyssey of horror as he was moved to Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Flossenbürg concentration camps. Remarkably he survived and returned to Paris in late 1945. It is to the credit of Alice Mavian, Mavian’s […]
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Army of Shadows

By Joseph Kessel

By Joseph Kessel
Front cover of Army of Shadows
  My partner brought me this book for Xmas. It was priced at 2/6, about 12p in today’s prices. I hoped she paid more than that, but this classic is priceless. This copy was printed in 1959, but the original was written by Kessel in 1943, and it about the French Resistance to Nazi occupation. The German army had invaded France, and an armistice was signed near Compiègne on 22 June 1940. Life continued as normal at first, but the German war machine took more and more. France was partitioned […]
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