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Author Gordon, Bertram M., 1945- author.

Title War tourism : Second World War France from defeat and occupation to the creation of heritage / Bertram M. Gordon
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (x, 307 pages)
Contents Introduction : tourism, aesthetics, and war -- The emergence of France as a tourist icon in the Belle Époque -- Two 1940 locales as sites and symbols : the Maginot Line and the Compiègne railway car -- French tourism in their occupied country -- German tourism in occupied France 1940-1944 -- The liberation, 1944 : Normandy and Paris -- Sites of memory and the tourist imaginary -- Tourism, war, and memory in postwar France -- Conclusion : tourism and appropriate remembrance
Summary "This book addresses the linkages between tourism and war, focusing on tourism by German personnel and French civilians during the Second World War and on postwar memory tourism"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Hitler, World War II France, postwar memory tourism, humanize war, Popular Front legislation of 1936
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 09, 2019)
Subject Tourism -- France -- History -- 20th century
Germans -- Travel -- France -- History -- 20th century
Dark tourism -- France -- History -- 20th century
Heritage tourism -- France -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- France.
War and society -- France -- History -- 20th century
Collective memory -- France -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Collective memory
Dark tourism
Germans -- Travel
Heritage tourism
Tourism
War and society
France
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018018664
ISBN 9781501715891
1501715895
1501715879
9781501715877