"Remarkable. The linking of prewar anti-Semitic royalists to the trends of current terrorism — from the Middle East to the leftovers of West Germany's Baader-Meinhof band — lifts [Erna Paris's] book far above the endlessly rewarmed arguments over exactly who in France was a collaborator and who a Resistance hero."

— The New York Times

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"Quite brilliant. A very good description of the psychology [of France]."

— Marcel Ophuls, Maclean's

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"A sure-footed guide through the minefield of modern France."

— The Globe and Mail

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"a powerful and revealing book"

— The New American

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"disturbing and illuminating..."

— The Toronto Star