Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed

Lest Innocent Blood be Shed: The Story of the village of Le Chambon and how goodness happened there by Philip Hallie (First Edition Softcover 1985) published by Harper Torchbooks, N.Y., 1985, 303 pages in Very Good Condition. Cover has light surface & edge-wear mainly in the corners. There is a crease in the upper corner on the back cover. Spine is firm & uncreased. Text is clean & unmarked with light tanning. During the terrible years od WWII, when inhumanity and political insanity held most of the world in its grip and the Nazi domination of Europe seemed irrevocable and unchallenged, a miraculous event took place in the small Protestant twon in Southern France called LeChambon. It is a story now told for the firts time in this marvelous book. There, quietly and in full view of the Vichy government (the puppet government of the Nazi) and the nearby division of the Nazi SS, Le Chambon's villagers and their clergy organized to save thousands of Jewish children and adults from certain death at the hands of the Nazis. An inspiring true story of courage, faith and virtue. Here in the midst of man's inhumanity to his fellow man was a beckon of light, a small group of people who would not stand by and do nothing. It is a story that will bring you to tears and put a smile on your heart. After reading the story of the village of Le Chambon one is compelled to think of the sorrow and the pity of the era and the courage and faith of a few. A must-read, an excellent true story. Prompt shipping.