Monsieur le Commandant
By: Romain Slocombe ; translated from the French by Jesse Browner
Contributors: Browner, Jesse
Publisher: Gallic Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781908313508
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Description: French Academician and Nazi sympathiser, Paul-Jean Husson, writes a letter to his local SS officer in the autumn of 1942. Tormented by an illicit passion for Ilse, his German daughter-in-law, Husson has made a decision that will devastate several lives, including his own. Husson's confession is a startling picture of one man's journey: from pillar of the French Establishment and First World War hero, to outspoken supporter of Nazism and the Vichy government.
Notes: Translated from the French.