The Collaborator
Book description
On February 6, 1945, a 35-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…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Collaborator as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
An expert in French fascism, Kaplan meticulously documents the career and the fate of the anti-Semitic, collaborationist novelist and journalist, Robert Brasillach. He was one of the few prominent intellectuals executed after the Liberation in France. His trial in late 1944 and execution in February 1945 put on the public stage the drama the country had just experienced: the Occupation, collaboration with the Nazis, the Resistance. As Kaplan presents it, Brasillach’s eloquent defense lawyer, the equally eloquent prosecutor, and Brasillach himself articulated the collision of visions of what it meant to be French and what it meant to be a…
From Rosanna's list on France modern art, culture, and political conflict.
Want books like The Collaborator?
Our community of 10,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like The Collaborator.
Browse books like The Collaborator
5 book lists we think you will like!
- The best books about modern art, culture, and political conflict in France
- The best books about France in World War II
- The best books on the refugee crisis precipitated by Germany's attack on Western Europe in WW2
- The best book about France in the Second World War
- The best books about formidable females in Nazi-occupied France
Interested in France, intellectual, and presidential biography?
10,000+ authors have recommended their favorite books and what they love about them. Browse their picks for the best books about France, intellectual, and presidential biography.