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03613aam a2200469 i 4500 001 C14A2516EB9D11E7A465B32097128E48 003 SILO 005 20171228010216 008 160511s2016 gau 000 1 eng 010 $a 2016014555 020 $a 088146564X 020 $a 9780881465648 035 $a (OCoLC)949359947 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d GMU $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 042 $a pcc 043 $a f-ae--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/f-ae $a f-ae--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/f-ae 050 00 $a PQ2682.O4 $b T6713 2016 082 00 $a 843/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Volkoff, Vladimir, $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016025820 240 10 $a Tortionnaire. $l English 245 14 $a The torturer : $b a novel / $c Vladimir Volkoff ; Translated by John Marson Dunaway. 264 1 $a Macon, Georgia : $b Mercer University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a 237 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "The Torturer provides an unforgettable case study in the controversy over torture. The hero, Robert Lavilhaud (pronounced "Lavilio," he insists), is an incredibly idealistic young officer and a fiercely devout Catholic. He is devoted to the highest traditional ideals of military service and to the Grand Dream of what Algeria can become as a fully integrated, prosperous deÌpartement of France. After his military service is completed, Lavilhaud plans to marry and finish his graduate studies in order to settle in French Algeria as a professor of literature. As officer in charge of a unit that is charged with interrogating insurrectionists and terrorists, he finds that circumstances overcome his convictions. At the same time, De Gaulle reneges on his earlier commitment to keep Algeria French. Loyalists like Lavilhaud, the Harkis, and the four French generals who staged a coup in opposition to De Gaulle's volte-face find themselves abandoned. Lavilhaud becomes the fall-guy in the political turmoil and ends up serving time in prison. Yet in the end, there is new hope for him in the form of a totally unexpected visitor to his prison cell. This is Vladimir Volkoff's last novel and it must have been a story very near to his heart, particularly when we reflect that he too was an intelligence officer in the Algerian War in his youth and a professor of literature before he became a well-known novelist."-- $c Provided by publisher 610 10 $a France. $b ArmeÌe $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Torture $z Algeria $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Algeria $x History $y Revolution, 1954-1962 $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026492 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423787 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423787 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1726481 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1726481 610 17 $a France. $b ArmeÌe. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00539214 611 27 $a Revolution (Algeria : 1954-1962) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01354461 648 7 $a 1954-1962 $2 fast 650 7 $a Torture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01152956 651 7 $a Algeria. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205459 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026339 700 1 $a Dunaway, John M., $d 1945- $e translator. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78046936 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210024442.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C14A2516EB9D11E7A465B32097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search