Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Rist, Charles, 1874-1955, author.

Title Season of infamy : a diary of war and occupation, 1939-1945 / Charles Rist ; translated from the French with additional text and annotation by Michele McKay Aynesworth ; foreword by Robert O. Paxton ; compilation, notes, and introduction to the 1983 French edition by Jean-Noël Jeanneney
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
©2016

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Contents Cover; Contents; Foreword; A Note from the Translator Regarding the English Text; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the 1983 French Edition; Regarding the History and Annotation of the French Text; A Brief Who's Who of the Rist Family; 1 War Begins: 2 September 1939-23 January 1940; 2 Blockade Mission, Visit to Roosevelt: 24 January-25 April 1940; 3 Occupation and Exodus 16 May-12 July 1940; 4 Vichy and the "French State": Beginnings: 12 July-29 September 1940; 5 Promulgation of Anti-Jewish Laws: 4 October-15 December 1940; 6 "National Renewal": Harem Hijinks: 17 December 1940-14 March 1941
7 The Spreading Conflagration: 16 March-17 August 19418 Pétain's Ambassador to Washington?: 30 August-26 October 1941; 9 "End of My Mission": 11 November-15 November 1941; 10 The Wind Shifts: 16 November-14 December 1941; 11 "A War against the Jews" 15 December 1941-27 February 1942; 12 War Hits Close to Home: 4 March-15 July 1942; 13 Certificates of Not Belonging to the Jewish Race: 24 July-23 October 1942; 14 "Coup de Théâtre": A Turning Point in the War: 24 October-13 December 1942; 15 Internal Gangrene: 16 December 1942-6 February 1943
16 Growing Doubts and Hardships at Home: 10 February-6 July 194317 Good News from Italy, Perils on the Home Front: 12 July-5 September 1943; 18 Twilight of the Rogues: 9 September-20 November 1943; 19 The Old Man's Wall: 21 November-31 December 1943; 20 Reign of Terror: 2 January-23 February 1944; 21 All-Out Civil War: 29 February-25 April 1944; 22 "Poor France!": 27 April-6 August 1944; 23 State of Siege: The Allies Advance: 11 August-24 August 1944; 24 The Ransom for Deliverance: 25 August 1944-27 December 1945; Appendix 1: Timeline of Rist's Travels during the War
Appendix 2: The Anti-Jewish Laws of VichyAppendix 3: Poem by Antoinette Rist Constable; Appendix 4: Postmortem; 12 September 1944. Letter to American Colonel Behn Regarding the Situation in France; 6 August 1946. The "Tyranny of the Military"; 13 May 1948. Cruelty Everywhere; Appendix 5: Members of Rist's Extended Family Imprisoned or Killed; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary "A valuable account of what one significant and perceptive Frenchman experienced during the protracted disgrace of France as a vassal state of Nazi Germany."--Publishers Weekly In 1939, the 65-year-old French political economist Charles Rist was serving as advisor to the French government and consultant to the international banking and business world. As France anxiously awaited a German invasion, Rist traveled to America to negotiate embargo policy. Days after his return to Paris, the German offensive began and with it the infamous season of occupation. Retreating to his villa in Versailles, Rist turned his energies to the welfare of those closest to him, while in his diary he began to observe the unfolding of the war. Here the deeply learned Rist investigates the causes of the disaster and reflects on his country's fate, placing the behavior of the "people" and the "elite" in historical perspective. Though well-connected, Rist and his family and friends were not exempt from the perils and tragedies of war, as the diary makes clear. Season of Infamy presents a distinctive, closely-observed view of life in France under the occupation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 17, 2016)
Subject Rist, Charles, 1874-1955 -- Diaries
SUBJECT Rist, Charles, 1874-1955 fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, French
World War, 1939-1945 -- France.
Diplomats -- France -- Diaries
Economists -- France -- Diaries
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Diplomats
Economists
SUBJECT France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051418
Subject France
Genre/Form Diaries
History
Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
Author Aynesworth, Michele McKay, 1947- translator.
Jeanneney, Jean Noël, 1942- compiler.
ISBN 9780253019516
0253019516
Other Titles Saison gâtée. English
Diary of war and occupation, 1939-1945