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01674aam a22002415i 4500 001 F136320CB51611EAA870BF0297128E48 003 SILO 005 20200623010108 008 200608s2020 eng 020 $a 1643072765 020 $a 9781643072760 040 $e rda $d SILO 100 $a Harshbarger, Dwight, 245 02 $a A quiet hero : $b a novel of resistance in WWII France $c by Dwight Harshbarger. 264 1 $a Herndon, VA : $b Mascot Books, $c 2019 300 $a 350 pages ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a After seizing Europe, the Nazis begin to execute “the final solution” by conducting a census of Jews in each of the Occupied countries that is driven by IBM technology. After the census in Holland, the Nazis murdered 75 percent of the Dutch Jews. After the census in France, 25 percent of the country’s Jews are murdered. What made France different? At Vichy France’s National Statistical Service headquarters in Lyon, General ReneÌ Carmille and his aide Miriam DupreÌ know spies are everywhere. They race against time to sabotage the census-based lists of Jews and mobilize the Resistance to combat the Nazi death machine. In this novel, Miriam tells the true story of General ReneÌ Carmille’s leadership in saving the lives of thousands of Jews—the story of A Quiet Hero. 650 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Underground movements $z France $v Fiction. 650 $a Underground movements, War. 651 $a France $x German occupation, 1940-1945 $x German occupation, 1940-1945 $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20200623010534.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F136320CB51611EAA870BF0297128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search