Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed - Softcover

Hallie, Philip

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9780061320514: Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006132051X ISBN 13: 9780061320514

Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS @ PUBLISHERS, 1985

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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.

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About the Author:

Philip Hallie was Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University, where he taught for thirty-two years. He died in 1994, leaving this manuscript. That it can now be published is do to the devotion of his wife, Doris Ann Hallie, who contributed an afterword. The foreword by John Compton, fellow philosopher and longtime friend of the author, will help the reader to understand this unusual document in the context of Hallie's life and thought.

Review:

"The subject makes a deservedly beautiful book. Mr. Hallie is wholly equal to it."--Paul Horgan"The thing that makes the story of this village supremely beautiful is simply that it happened. These events took place and therefore demand place in our view of the world. If awareness of history has pushed us to the point of losing faith in ourselves, the case may also be, as professor Hallie says, that 'redemption lies in remembering.' "Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed is one of the rarest of books, the kind that can change the way we live."--"Harper's"If, as has often been alleged, our old ethics do not work well, the alternatives work worse. But what is stunning about the people of Le Chambon is that the old ethics worked perfectly for them. Its citizens attained in virtue the perfection that in artistic creation or performance we recognize as glamorous--magical, mystifying, romantic, alluring. The Chamonnais set new standards of excellence."--"The New Yorker"After reading this book, one is compelled to think of "The Sorrow and the Pity...and the courage and the faith."--"New York Times Book Review

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