| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
The call -- Parties and labor unions -- Birth of the movements -- Engagement -- Game change -- Working together, rallying behind de Gaulle -- Fighting the same battle? -- Responses to persecution of the Jews -- The internal resistance in 1943 -- The long road to unity -- Caluire and its repercussions -- Power struggles in Algiers and their consequences -- In order of battle -- Formez vos bataillons! -- Social components -- The repression -- Incomplete victory -- A divided memory |
| Summary |
Olivier Wieviorka's history of the French Resistance debunks lingering myths and offers fresh insight into social, political, and military aspects of its operation. He reveals not one but many interlocking homegrown groups often at odds over goals, methods, and leadership. Yet, despite a lack of unity, these fighters braved Nazism without blinking |
| Notes |
"Originally published as Histoire de la Resistance : 1940-1945"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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War -- Underground movements
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Résistance
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| SUBJECT |
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051418
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| Subject |
France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015037898 |
| ISBN |
9780674970373 |
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0674970373 |
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