France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944
The Dark Years, 1940-1944
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 March 2003
- ISBN 9780199254576
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages688 pages
- Size 233x157x35 mm
- Weight 1050 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 Maps 0
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Short description:
This is the first comprehensive study of the German occupation of France between 1940 and 1944. The author examines the nature and extent of collaboration and resistance, different experiences of Occupation, the persecution of the Jews, intellectual and cultural life under Occupation, and the purge trials that followed. He concludes by tracing the legacy and memory of the Occupation since 1945.
MoreLong description:
The French call them 'the Dark Years'...
This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive years in French history.
Taking in ordinary people's experiences of defeat, collaboration, resistance, and liberation, it uncovers the conflicting memories of occupation which ensure that even today France continues to debate the legacy of the Vichy years.
wide-ranging ... The story is regularly enriched by nuggets of unexpected information.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Historians and the Occupation
Anticipations
The Shadow of War: Cultural Anxieties and Modern Nightmares
Rethinking the Republic 1890-1934
Class War/Civil War
The German Problem
The Daladier Moment: Prelude to Vichy or Republican Revival
The Debacle
The Regime: National Revolution and Collaboration
The National Revolution
Collaboration
Collaborationism
Laval in Power 1942-43
The Regime, the Germans, and Administration
Propaganda,Policing, and Administration
Public Opinion, Vichy, and the Germans
Intellectuals, Artists, and Entertainers
Reconstructing Mankind
Vichy and the Jews
The Resistance
The Free French 1940-1942
The Resistance 1940-1942
De Gaulle and the Resistance 1942
Power Struggles
Resistance in Society
The New France
Liberation and After
Towards Liberation: January to June 1944
Liberations
A New France?
Remembering the Occupation
