(1/4) Oradour-sur-Glane - The French village destroyed in a day
In the first of four special blog posts, I take a look at what happened on 10 June 1944, in this famous village in Haute-Vienne, France....
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Robert Pike
- May 16, 2021
The Girl in the School Photograph
There are far more personal stories attached to Oradour-sur-Glane than I was able to fit into a single volume. Now that the book, Silent...
Robert Pike
- Mar 19, 2021
The teacher, the mother and Oradour
Louise Bardet never got to eat lunch with the elder of her two children on 10 June 1944. That morning the sky had been grey and the air...
Robert Pike
- Jun 29, 2020
The Welsh Silent Village
Two years to the day before Oradour-sur-Glane was destroyed by the SS Das Reich (the subject of my own upcoming book, Silent Village)...
Robert Pike
- Jun 10, 2020
The Road to the Silent Village
On June 10 1944 The French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was destroyed by the SS. Here Robert Pike previews his next book 'Silent Village
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