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.
By:
Julian Jackson
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 233mm,
Width: 157mm,
Spine: 35mm
Weight: 1.050kg
ISBN: 9780199254576
ISBN 10: 0199254575
Pages: 688
Publication Date: 01 June 2003
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
A / AS level
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Historians and the Occupation Anticipations 1: The Shadow of War: Cultural Anxieties and Modern Nightmares 2: Rethinking the Republic 1890-1934 3: Class War/Civil War 4: The German Problem 5: The Daladier Moment: Prelude to Vichy or Republican Revival 6: The Debacle The Regime: National Revolution and Collaboration 7: The National Revolution 8: Collaboration 9: Collaborationism 10: Laval in Power 1942-43 The Regime, the Germans, and Administration 11: Propaganda,Policing, and Administration 12: Public Opinion, Vichy, and the Germans 13: Intellectuals, Artists, and Entertainers 14: Reconstructing Mankind 15: Vichy and the Jews The Resistance 16: The Free French 1940-1942 17: The Resistance 1940-1942 18: De Gaulle and the Resistance 1942 19: Power Struggles 20: Resistance in Society 21: The New France Liberation and After 22: Towards Liberation: January to June 1944 23: Liberations 24: A New France? 25: Remembering the Occupation
Reviews for France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944
wide-ranging ... The story is regularly enriched by nuggets of unexpected information. Patrick Marnham, Spectator, 7 July 2001 a valuable addition to the continuing debate over France's collapse in 1940 and the Vichy government's subsequent cooperation with the Nazis Contemporary Review this analysis reads very fresh, as though what happened might have turned out differently The Guardian
