Title: The collaborator
Description: "On February 6, 1945, a thirty-five-year-old French writer and newspaper editor named Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was the only writer of any distinction to be put to death by the French Liberation government during the violent days of score-settling known as the Purge.

In this book, Alice Kaplan tells the story of Brasillach's rise and fall: his emergence as the golden boy of literary fascism during the 1930s, his wartime collaboration with the Nazis, his dramatic trial, and his afterlife as a martyr for French rightists and Holocaust revisionists."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Biography, Collaborationists, Fascism, Fascism and literature, French Authors, History, Intellectual life, Intellectuals, Political activity, Political and social views, Trials (Treason), World War, 1939-1945, World war, 1939-1945, collaborationists, Authors, french, Trials (treason), europe, Intellectuals, france, Fascism, france
Places: France
People: Robert Brasillach (1909-1945)
Time periods: 20th century