The People's Anger: Justice And Revenge In Post Liberation France

by Herbert R. Lottman

Following the liberation of Normandy in 1944 and for six years afterwards, France was convulsed by a savage purge of all those who had collaberated - or were suspected of collaborting - with the Nazi occupation. This book tells the extraordinary and controversial story of this episode in post war Frances' history.

About the author

Herbert Lottman was an American journalist and author who spend most of his life in France.
He majored in English and biology at the University of New York, graduating in 1948 and earned a master’s in English from Columbia in 1951.
In 1956 he moved to Paris and became the manager of the Paris branch of the publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He also was writing for Publishers Weekly for four decades and wrote a novel, Detours From the Grand Tour.
But he is most reknowned for his biographies on French personalities and his writings on French intellectual life.