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France, the Dark Years 1940-1944

Door Julian Jackson

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#251847
Titel
France, the Dark Years 1940-1944
Auteur
Jackson, Julian
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2001
ISBN10
0199254575
ISBN13
9780199254576
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting

In this monumental new account of the Vichy years, Julian Jackson examines French experiences of Occupation during the 'Black Years' of 1940-4. Pulling together previously separate 'histories' of occupation, resistance, and collaboration he presents a definitive history of the period. This is a more complex history than the traditional dichotomy between 'collaboration' and 'resistance', one in which the ideological frontiers between Vichy and the Resistance were often blurred. This study ranges from the politics of Marshal Petain's regime to the experiences of the ordinary French people, from surrender in 1940 to the purges of liberation. The author restores the organized Resistance to a more central role than has been customary in recent years and presents a new social history of the re
... (Lees verder)sistance which takes in the roles of foreigners, women, Jews, and peasants. He uncovers the long term roots of the Vichy regime in political and social conflict and cultural crisis stretching back to the Great War and concludes by tracing the lasting legacy and memory of Occupation since 1945.
Pagina's
660
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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