num_pages: 607
description: 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.
language: English
title: Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France
titlecomplete: Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France
genres: 20th Century, History, Biography, World War II, Memoir, Holocaust, France, War, European History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 139
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Biography, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Orwell Prize, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
publisher: Vintage