Books by Carmen Callil
Carmen Callil founded the Virago Press and is now a critic and writer. Her latest book, Bad Faith, is about Vichy France and Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and Commissioner for Jewish Affairs. She is currently working on Oh Happy Day, a book about about 19th-century England, Ireland and Lebanon, and her ancestors’ lives there at that time.
“Carmen Callil is a publisher and writer and she found out that somebody she knew was related to this man who at the time was the Vichy Commissioner for Jewish Affairs an absolutely awful man in every way – not just in his anti-Semitism, but in his private life and everything else….the elements in it about collaboration and how the collaborators – and a very unpleasant collaborator in particular – lived, about that kind of existence, are very vivid and very graphic and very moving.” Read more...
The best books on The French Resistance
Jonathan Fenby, Journalist
Interviews with Carmen Callil
The best books on The Other France, recommended by Carmen Callil
From the tyranny of Franco in Spain to the silence of the Catholic Church during the Holocaust, Carmen Callil (1938-2022), author of Bad Faith, recommends books on some darker aspects of European and French history in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Interviews where books by Carmen Callil were recommended
The best books on The French Resistance, recommended by Jonathan Fenby
The historian and author chooses five books on de Gaulle and the Resistance. He says the British tried to veto de Gaulle’s famous 1940 speech from London calling on the French to stand up to German occupation
