In This Hospitable Land (67 page)

Quand le Gard Résistait

1940–1944

Pierre Mazier

Aimé Vielzeuf

LACOUR/COLPORTEUR

Cévennes

terre de refuge 1940–1944

Philippe Joutard

Jacques Ponjol

Patrick Cabanel

Presses Du Languedoc/Club Cevenol

Vichy France

Old Guard and New Order 1940–1944

Robert O. Paxton

Columbia University Press

Petain

Nicholas Atkin

Longman

Photograph by Christo Brock, 2008

Lynmar Brock, Jr., is a native of Pennsylvania who grew up in the Philadelphia suburb of Newtown Square. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English and an MBA from Dartmouth College before joining the U.S. Navy in 1956. He served as an officer on a destroyer in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet and later was transferred to the Pentagon, where he worked in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. After returning to civilian life, he took over operations of Brock and Company, his family’s food-services company, where he was president/CEO for forty-five years. He has also served on the board of directors of Rotary International, and his work with this worldwide service organization has taken him to India, Madagascar, Pakistan, and the Afghan border. In addition to
In This Hospitable Land
, Lynmar Brock is the author of
Must Thee Fight
and
Genevieve
. He is currently at work on his fourth book. He and his wife, Claudie, have two sons.