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Author : Charles Voegelé
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782915715217
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Drôle de guerre written by Charles Voegelé and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Léon-Antoine Dupré
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782749926407
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Drôles d'histoires de la drôle de guerre written by Léon-Antoine Dupré and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Après le Carnet de route d'un gosse des tranchées, consacré à la guerre de 14-18, voici la suite des souvenirs de Léon-Antoine Dupré, dans un second volume calligraphié et illustré par ses soins, qui a cette fois pour cadre le début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Drôles d'histoires ? Oui, à double titre. D'une part, elles montrent à quel point la «drôle de guerre» mérite son nom : une guerre sans combat, au calme trompeur, jusqu'à ce que la France succombe sous l'invasion allemande. D'autre part, elles relatent les expériences peu ordinaires que l'auteur accumule onze mois durant : son séjour inénarrable à l'hôtel-Dieu de Saint-Malo, où, à la suite de la mobilisation de septembre 1939, il est affecté comme médecin auxiliaire ; le voyage épique qu'il accomplit en juin 1940, en pleine débâcle, pour fuir en zone libre ; les quatre semaines qu'il passe dans le Gers à attendre on ne sait quels ordres, puis l'audacieux retour vers les siens. Avec un talent de conteur indéniable et un humour qui, malgré les circonstances, ne cède jamais au défaitisme, Léon-Antoine Dupré nous livre ici un récit surprenant, enrichi d'anecdotes parfois irrésistibles, qui révèle maints aspects méconnus d'une époque singulière.
Author : Maude Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131531147X
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)
Download or read book French Soldiers' Morale in the Phoney War, 1939-1940 written by Maude Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of the French army in 1940 is a well-researched topic in Second World War Studies but a surprising gap in the historiography emerges when it comes to the study of the French military prior to the German offensive of May 1940. Using various public and private sources in different languages, this book aims to address this gap by studying morale on the frontline and its management by the French Government, the Grand Quartier Général, at the scale of the regiment and on a personal level. This research also investigates German and British propaganda in French and aimed at the French sector of the frontline in order to offer the first comprehensive comparative study of French army morale in any language.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (942 download)
Download or read book Journal de la drôle de guerre, (septembre 1939 - juillet 1940). Préf. d'E. Fajon written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Porch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107047463
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Defeat and Division written by Douglas Porch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive new history of the France at war from the war's outbreak to the invasion of North Africa in late 1942.
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Publisher : TheBookEdition
ISBN 13 : 2955278866
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (552 download)
Download or read book written by and published by TheBookEdition. This book was released on with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Carswell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030039552
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Fall of France in the Second World War written by Richard Carswell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the fall of France in the Second World War has been recorded by historians and remembered within society. It argues that explanations of the fall have usually revolved around the four main themes of decadence, failure, constraint and contingency. It shows that the dominant explanation claimed for many years that the fall was the inevitable consequence of a society grown rotten in the inter-war period. This view has been largely replaced among academic historians by a consensus which distinguishes between the military defeat and the political demise of the Third Republic. It emphasizes the contingent factors that led to the military defeat. At the same time it seeks to understand the constraints within which France’s policy-makers were required to act and the reasons for their policy-making failures in economics, defence and diplomacy.
Author : Pierre Lemaitre
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 1529416930
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (294 download)
Download or read book Mirror of our Sorrows written by Pierre Lemaitre and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tremendous and enjoyable" - La Libre Belgique "A great success" - La Croix April, 1940. Louise Belmont runs naked down the boulevard du Montparnasse. To understand the traumatic scene she has just witnessed, she will have to plunge headlong into the madness of the Phoney War, as France, seized by the panic of a new European conflict, descends into chaos. Louise navigates this period of enormous upheaval in parallel with her fellow citizens - including Maginot Line conscripts Raoul and Gabriel, bistro-owner Monsieur Jules and confidence trickster Désiré Migault. The looming threat of German occupation uncovers long-buried secrets and makes for strange bedfellows, as one extraordinary twist of fate follows another. With characteristic wit and verve, Pierre Lemaitre chronicles the fall of a nation crushed by circumstance. The final novel in his award-winning trilogy is an incandescent tale that veers from the tragic to the burlesque. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne
Author : Natalie Fryde
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3825894789
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Walls, Ramparts, and Lines of Demarcation written by Natalie Fryde and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fortifications on the scale of these walls are unique in that they are (apart from individual castles) the only known military measure with long-term aims. The military aims sometimes proved of extremely long-term value, the most extreme example being the erection of the Great Wall of China. The aim of this volume is to find out the common denominator (if any) behind the creation of such fortifications, their effectiveness and their influence on a long and short-term basis. Contents include: The Limes * Hadrians Wall and the Antonine Wall * The "Danewerk" * The Frontera: Spanish Defences against the Moors * The Great Wall of China * The French Eastern Border * The Berlin Wall * The Jerusalem Wall
Author : S. Cohen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230614728
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Democracies at War against Terrorism written by S. Cohen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous democratic nations have been singled out by NGOs for brutality in their modus operandi, for paying inadequate attention to civilian protection or for torture of prisoners. This book deals with the difficulties faced when conducting asymmetric warfare in populated areas without violating humanitarian law.
Author : Robert Forczyk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472824431
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Case Red written by Robert Forczyk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even after the legendary evacuation from Dunkirk in June 1940 there were still large British formations fighting the Germans alongside their French allies. After mounting a vigorous counterattack at Abbeville and then conducting a tough defence along the Somme, the British were forced to conduct a second evacuation from the ports of Le Havre, Cherbourg, Brest and St Nazaire. While France was in its death throes, politicians and soldiers debated what to do – flee to England or North Africa, or seek an armistice. Case Red captures the drama of the final three weeks of military operations in France in June 1940, and explains the great impact it had on the course of relations between Britain and France during the remainder of the war. It also addresses the military, political and human drama of France's collapse in June 1940, and how the windfall of captured military equipment, fuel and industrial resources enhanced the Third Reich's ability to attack its next foe – the Soviet Union.
Author : Nicholas Atkin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313056196
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth-Century Europe written by Nicholas Atkin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert contributors write on the experiences of civilians who lived through occupation and bloodshed in the First World War; the Russians who lived or died during the the devastating civil war in 1917-1922, leading eventually to the terrors of Stalinism; the Spaniards of many factions who fought against each other in bloody civil wars; the ordinary people of France, Germany, Britain, Italy and other countries who faced the hardship and horrors of the Second World War; and the ethnic- and religious-based fighting and atrocities, often targeted at civilians, in the former Yugoslavia from 1991 into the twenty-first century. Carefully selected sources for further research help users find additional information on civilian life during these events. Expert contributors write on the experiences of civilians in the many wars of twentieth-century Europe. Among the events discussed are the Europeans who lived through occupation and bloodshed in the First World War; the Russians who lived and died in the devastating civil war in 1917-1922, leading eventually to the terrors of Stalinism; the Spaniards of many factions who fought against each other in bloody civil wars; the ordinary people of France, Germany, Britain, Italy and other countries who faced the hardship and horrors of the Second World War; and the ethnic- and religious-based fighting and atrocities, often targeted at civilians, in the former Yugoslavia from 1991 into the twenty-first century. Carefully selected sources for further research help users find additonal information on civilian life during these events. Chapters including vivid accounts of civilians' roles and experiences through wars in twentieth-century Europe are supplemented by recommended print and online resources for further study, a glossary defining important terms and concepts, and a timeline putting events into a chronological context.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004502203
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Guises of Canadian Diversity / Les masques de la diversité canadienne written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected here illustrate aspects of recent research conducted by graduate students in Canadian studies at various European universities. The methodological diversity displayed points to the very essence of the culture the contributors explore - what has been commonly termed the Canadian mosaic or, more recently, the Canadian kaleidoscope (Janice Kulyk-Keefer). In analysing the many facets of this mosaic, the numerous images of this kaleidoscope, the contributors offer fresh and youthful reappraisals of traditional visions of Canadianness.
Author : Ludivine Broch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316538869
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust written by Ludivine Broch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should French railwaymen during the Second World War be viewed as great resisters or collaborators in genocide? Ludivine Broch revisits histories of resistance, collaboration and deportation in Vichy France through the prism of the French railwaymen – the cheminots. De-sanctifying the idea of railwaymen as heroic saboteurs, Broch reveals the daily life of these workers who accommodated with the Vichy regime, cohabitated with the Germans and stole from their employer. Moreover, by intertwining the history of the working classes with Holocaust history, she highlights unexpected histories under Vichy and sensitive memories of the post-war period. Ultimately, this book bursts the myths of cheminot resistance and collaboration in the Holocaust, and reveals that there is more to their story than this. The cheminots fed both the French nation and the German military apparatus, exemplifying the complexities of personal, professional and political life under occupation.
Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019162232X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Fall of France written by Julian Jackson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through the French lines on the River Meuse at Sedan and elsewhere, only five days after launching their attack. Churchill, who had been telephoned by Prime Minister Reynaud the previous evening to be told that the French were beaten, rushed to Paris to meet the French leaders. The mood in the meeting was one of panic and despair; there was talk of evacuating Paris. Churchill asked Gamelin, the French Commander in Chief, 'Where is the strategic reserve?' 'There is none,' replied Gamelin. This exciting book by Julian Jackson, a leading historian of twentieth-century France, charts the breathtakingly rapid events that led to the defeat and surrender of one of the greatest bastions of the Western Allies, and thus to a dramatic new phase of the Second World War. The search for scapegoats for the most humiliating military disaster in French history began almost at once: were miscalculations by military leaders to blame, or was this an indictment of an entire nation? Using eyewitness accounts, memoirs, and diaries, Julian Jackson recreates, in gripping detail, the intense atmosphere and dramatic events of these six weeks in 1940, unravelling the historical evidence to produce a fresh answer to the perennial question of whether the fall of France was inevitable.
Author : Douglas Porch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009161148
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Resistance and Liberation written by Douglas Porch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New history of la France libre, Vichy collaboration, and the resistance from the campaigns in Tunisia and Italy to Liberation.
Author : K.R.M. Short
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100045830X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Film & Radio Propaganda in World War II written by K.R.M. Short and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1983, brings together leading world experts on film and radio propaganda in a study which deals with each of the major powers as well as several under occupation. By examining each nations’ propaganda content and comparing its various strands of output designed for different audiences, the historian is provided with an important source of a nation’s official self-image. Total war forced governments to formulate goals consistent with the received national ideology in order to support the war effort. To this extent, much of the domestic propaganda was directed towards stimulating the population to make sacrifices with promise of a new world if the peace were won.
