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Love and War in the Pyrenees is a book written by Rosemary Bailey. Bailey in 2008. The book was awarded the best narrative travel book by the British Guild of Travel Writers.[1]

The book[2] is about World War II in the Pyrenees region.[3] Rebecca Abrams from The Jewish Chronicle described the book as "a quiet triumph of historical reconstruction."[4]

  1. ^ "Rosemary Bailey's LOVE AND WAR IN THE PYRENEES - La Paloma". lapaloma.info. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  2. ^ Love and War in the Pyrenees, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008
  3. ^ Camp de Rivesaltes, Pyrénées-Orientales, South of France
  4. ^ Love and War In The Pyrenees by Rosemary Bailey The Jewish Chronicle, Friday, 12 September 2008.

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