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The French at War, 1934-1944

Author : Nicholas Atkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317878930
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The French at War, 1934-1944 written by Nicholas Atkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years 1934 to 1944 remain the most contentious and dramatic decade in modern French history. Covering the Occupation, the Vichy regime, the Resistance and collaboration, Nick Atkin provides an important introduction to this key period. Accessible and concise, the book offers a wide-ranging synthesis of key themes and events. Looking ahead to the present day, the book also examines how the French establishment and public have coped with the legacy of Vichy, and explains why the occupation is still ever present in French politics and everyday life.

Vercors 1944

Author : Peter Lieb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780961162
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Vercors 1944 written by Peter Lieb and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting insurgents has always been one of the greatest challenges for regular armed forces during the 20th century. The war between the Germans and the French resistance, also called FFI (Forces Françaises d'Intérieur), during World War II has remained a near-forgotten chapter in the history of these 'Small Wars'. This is all the more astonishing as agencies like the British SOE (Special Operations Executive) and the American OSS (Office of Strategic Services) pumped a good amount of their resources into the support of the French resistance movement. By diversionary attacks on German forces in the occupied hinterland the Allies hoped the FFI could provide assistance in disrupting German supply lines as well as crumbling their morale. The mountain plateau of the Vercors south-west of Grenoble was the main stronghold of the FFI, and in July 1944 some 8,000 German soldiers mounted an operation on the plateau and destroyed the insurgent groups there. The battle of the Vercors was the largest operation against the FFI during World War II and the German's suit and crushing victory has caused traumatic memories for the French that persist to the present day.

France and Her Army

Author : Charles De Gaulle
Publisher : Andesite Press
ISBN 13 : 9781297520402
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book France and Her Army written by Charles De Gaulle and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Crisis and Renewal in France, 1918-1962

Author : Kenneth Mouré
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782381643
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Crisis and Renewal in France, 1918-1962 written by Kenneth Mouré and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1914, the French state has faced a succession of daunting and at times almost insurmountable crises. The turbulent decades from 1914 to 1969 witnessed near-defeat in 1914, economic and political crisis in 1926, radical political polarization in the 1930s, military conquest in 1940, the deep division of France during the Nazi Occupation, political reconstruction after 1944, de-colonization (with threatening civil war provoked by the Algerian crisis), and dramatic postwar modernization. However, this tumultuous period was not marked just by crises but also by tremendous change. Economic, social and political "modernization" transformed France in the twentieth century, restoring its confidence and its influence as a leader in global economic and political affairs. This combination of crises and renewal has received surprisingly little attention in recent years. The present collection show-cases significant new scholarship, reflecting greater access to French archival sources, and focuses on the role of crises in fostering modernization in areas covering politics, economics, women, diplomacy and war.

The Blood of Free Men

Author : Michael Neiberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0465023991
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Blood of Free Men written by Michael Neiberg and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the operation involving Resistance fighters, Allied commanders, and French citizens that resulted in the liberation of Paris in 1944 from German occupation and ultimately helped shape the outcome of World War II.

The Fall of France

Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780192805508
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Fall of France written by Julian Jackson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 300 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 ofevacuating 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.

France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944

Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191622885
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 written by Julian Jackson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-03-05 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944

Author : Robert O. Paxton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944 written by Robert O. Paxton and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncompromising, often startling, meticulously documented'this book is an account of the government, and the governed, of colaborationist France. Basing his work on captured German archives and contemporary materials rather than on self-serving postwar memoirs or war-trial testimony, Professor Paxton maps out the complex nature of the ill-famed Vichy government, showing that it in fact enjoyed mass participation. The majority of the Frenchmen in 1940 feared social disorder as the worse imaginable evil and rallied to support the State, thereby bringing about the betrayal of the Nation as a whole.

The Great War and the French People

Author : Jean Jacques Becker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book The Great War and the French People written by Jean Jacques Becker and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

German Soldiers and the Occupation of France, 1940–1944

Author : Julia S. Torrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108471285
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis German Soldiers and the Occupation of France, 1940–1944 by : Julia S. Torrie

Download or read book German Soldiers and the Occupation of France, 1940–1944 written by Julia S. Torrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occupations past and present -- Consuming the tastes and pleasures of France -- Touring and writing about occupied land -- Capturing experiences: and photo books -- Rising tensions -- Westweich perceptions of "softness"; among soldiers in France -- Twilight of the gods

France in the Second World War

Author : Chris Millington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350094994
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book France in the Second World War written by Chris Millington and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 1940-1944, the citizens of France and its Empire endured the 'dark years' of invasion, persecution and foreign occupation. Thousands of men, women and children suffered arrest, deportation and death as the French Vichy regime worked to secure a place for France in Hitler's New Order. France in the Second World War is a wide-ranging yet succinct introduction to the French experience of the Second World War and its aftermath. It examines the fall of France in 1940 and the founding of the Vichy regime, as well as collaboration, resistance, everyday life, the Holocaust, the Liberation and the echoes of the period in contemporary France. Chris Millington addresses the chief topics in chapters that synthesizes the key points of the history and the historiography. The French Empire is carefully integrated throughout, illustrating the global impact of events on mainland France. In addition, Millington provides a helpful glossary of terms, personalities and movements from the period and an annotated bibliography of English-language sources to guide students to the most relevant works in the area. France in the Second World War provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and historiography of France and its Empire during their darkest hours.

The Complete War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle

Author : Charles de Gaulle
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786705467
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Complete War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle written by Charles de Gaulle and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in three separate volumes covering three distinct periods, this single edition encompasses all the personal writings by one of this century's most prominent generals and statesmen from the fall of France in 1940 to the aftermath of World War II in 1946. The first section, "The Call to Honor," recounts the confusion and despair triggered by Hitler's blitzkrieg invasion of France. The second section, "Unity," describes de Gaulle's struggles to rally the Free French in Africa and in underground movements throughout Europe, his bitter conflict with the Vichy puppet regime ruling occupied France, and his cooperation with the Allied powers. "Salvation," the final installment, chronicles the turning of the tide of war against Nazi Germany, de Gaulle's triumphant return to France, and the reincarnation of the French Republic as a major international presence. - Back cover.

Rearming the French ...

Author : Marcel Vigneras
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Rearming the French ... written by Marcel Vigneras and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

War, Nation, Memory

Author : Keith A. Crawford
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 160752659X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book War, Nation, Memory written by Keith A. Crawford and published by IAP. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War stands as the most devastating and destructive global conflict in human history. More than 60 nations representing 1.7 billion people or three quarters of the world’s population were consumed by its horror. Not surprisingly, therefore, World War II stands as a landmark episode in history education throughout the world and its prominent place in school history textbooks is almost guaranteed. As this book demonstrates, however, the stories that nations choose to tell their young about World War II do not represent a universally accepted “truth” about events during the war. Rather, wartime narratives contained in school textbooks typically are selected to instil in the young a sense of national pride, common identify, and shared collective memory. To understand this process War, Nation, Memory describes and evaluates school history textbooks from many nations deeply affected by World War II including China, France, Germany, Japan, USA, and the United Kingdom. It critically examines the very different and complex perspectives offered in many nations and analyses the ways in which textbooks commonly serve as instruments of socialisation and, in some cases, propaganda. Above all, War, Nation, Memory demonstrates that far from containing “neutral” knowledge, history textbooks prove fascinating cultural artefacts consciously shaped and legitimated by powerful ideological, cultural, and sociopolitical forces dominant in the present.

Medieval Roles for Modern Times

Author : Helen Solterer
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271036133
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Roles for Modern Times written by Helen Solterer and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the performances of a Parisian youth group, Gustave Cohen's Théophiliens, and the process of making medieval culture a part of the modern world. Explores the work of actor Moussa Abadi, and his clandestine resistance under the Vichy regime in France during World War II"--Provided by publisher.

A History of Fascism in France

Author : Chris Millington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350006564
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A History of Fascism in France written by Chris Millington and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2021 A History of Fascism in France explores the origins, development, and action of fascism and extreme right and fascist organisations in France since the First World War. Synthesizing decades of scholarship, it is the first book in any language to trace the full story of French fascism from the First World War to the modern National Front, via the interwar years, the Vichy regime and the collapse of the French Empire. Chris Millington unpicks why this extremist political phenomenon has, at times, found such fervent and widespread support among the French people. The book chronologically surveys fascism in France whilst contextualizing this within the broader European and colonial frameworks that are so significant to the subject. Concluding with a useful historiographical chapter that brings together all the previously explored aspects of fascism in France, A History of Fascism in France is a crucial volume for all students of European fascism and France in the 20th century.

Living with the Enemy

Author : Sandra Ott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316834085
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Living with the Enemy written by Sandra Ott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In post-liberation France, the French courts judged the cases of more than one hundred thousand people accused of aiding and abetting the enemy during the Second World War. In this fascinating book, Sandra Ott uncovers the hidden history of collaboration in the Pyrenean borderlands of the Basques and the Béarnais in southwestern France through nine stories of human folly, uncertainty, ambiguity, ambivalence, desire, vengeance, duplicity, greed, self-interest, opportunism and betrayal. Covering both the occupation and liberation periods, she reveals how the book's characters became involved with the occupiers for a variety of reasons, ranging from a desire to settle scores and to gain access to power, money and material rewards, to love, friendship, fear and desperation. These wartime lives and subsequent postwar reckonings provide us with a new lens through which to understand human behavior under the difficult conditions of occupation, and the subsequent search for retribution and justice.