Oradour: Village of the Dead

by Philip Beck

black hardcover with dust jacket

88 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1979

Reviews

[Alex Crozier]

An uncomfortably evocative and detailed account of the massacre at Oradour in 1944. There’s more nuanced scholarship out there but if you’ve ever worked yourself into a spiral wondering trying to make sense of what happened on June 10 when all the articles you’ve read seem to conflict with each other (as well as your own memories of the ruins) then this is a good place to start. Beck gets a little too invested in the gory details and seems to throw in the towel when faced with any level of analysis, but he paints an effective picture of the key events of the massacre and highlights some of the conflicting survivor testimonies that seem to have confused more recent summaries.

[John Geddes]

"A senior British journalist describes the Oradour massacre of French civilians by Alsatian soldiers with remarkable restraint and objectivity."

IHR Revisionist Bibliography 1981
https://archive.is/LWkOQ