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Author Nettelbeck, Colin W

Title War and Identity The French and the Second World War: an Anthology of Texts
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (122 p.)
Series Routledge Library Editions: WW2 Ser. ; v.39
Routledge Library Editions: WW2 Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Story of Trauma and Recovery -- 1 On The Eve of War: A Nation Divided -- Léon Blum and the 'Front Populaire' -- Civil War in Spain -- 'Mieux Hitler Que Blum' -- Munich -- The 'Drôle De Guerre' -- 2 The Débâcle (10 May-20 June 1940) -- Military Defeat -- Dunkirk -- Exodus -- Armistice -- De Gaulle's Rebellion -- The Defeat -- 3 Occupation I: Disillusionment and Illusions -- Prisoners -- A Humiliated People -- Vichy and Paris
Glitter and Black Market -- Germany: The Promised Land -- De Gaulle Seen from Vichy -- 4 Occupation II: Abjection and Hope -- The Jewish Question -- Nazi France -- Resistance -- Timid Beginnings -- 'Le Parti Des Fusillés' -- Towards Liberation -- 5 Liberation, Purge, and The Quest for a New France -- Getting Rid of The Germans -- 'L'Épuration' -- The Search for Unity -- 6 Looking Back -- Colonial Disaster -- The Return of De Gaulle -- The War Revisited -- Conclusions -- Chronology -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- France.
Group identity -- France -- History -- 20th century
National characteristics, French.
Group identity
National characteristics, French
France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000460223
1000460223