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1 online resource |
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Cultural history of modern war |
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Cultural history of modern war.
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Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Children, bombing and France; Three towns under the bombs; Boulogne-Billancourt; Brest; Lille; The structure of this book; Notes; 1 Telling stories; History or memory?; History or oral history?; Individual or collective memory?; Children or adults?; A book about trauma?; Notes; Part I Expecting bombing; 2 Expecting war; Future war; Past war; Present war; Notes; 3 Preparing for bombs; National preparations |
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Local and domestic preparationsNotes; Part II Experiencing bombing; 4 Being bombed; Surprise, shelter, survival: practical responses to bombing; Son et lumière: sensory responses to bombing; Hope, fear and despair: emotional responses to bombing; Notes; 5 An evolving response; Evolution of the threat; Vichy's response to the threat; Evolution of local responses; Family and personal responses; Notes; 6 In the aftermath; Local destruction: scale and confrontation; Finding home and family; Encounters with death; Rescue and clearance in the aftermath; Notes; 7 The consequences of bombing |
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Disruptions to daily lifeSinistrés; Refugees; Child evacuees: policy; Child evacuees: experience; Notes; Part III Explaining bombing; 8 Explaining bombing to the public; Anti-Allied propaganda; Pro-Allied propaganda; Public opinion, propaganda and bombing; Notes; 9 Explaining bombing to children; Propaganda for children; Explaining to children: extent of knowledge; Notes; 10 Friends, enemies and the wider war; The Allies: friends?; The Germans: enemies?; Bombing and the wider war; Notes; Evaluating bombing: a conclusion; Evaluating the impact of bombing on the individual |
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Evaluating impact beyond the individualBombing and memory in France; Notes; Appendix: biographical profiles; Interviewees; Writers; Bibliography; Interviews with the author; Written accounts given to the author; Archival sources; France: main; Archives municipales de Boulogne-Billancourt (AMBB); Archives municipales et communautaires de Brest (AMCB); Archives départementales du Nord (ADN); Archives municipales de Lille (AML); France: other; Archives départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône (ADBR); Archives départementales du Calvados (ADC); Archives départementales de la Creuse (ADCr) |
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Archives départementales d'Ille-et-Vilaine (ADIV)Archives départementales de la Loire (ADL); Archives départementales de la Loire-Atlantique (ADLA); Archives départementales du Morbihan (ADM); Archives municipales de Marseille (AMM); Archives nationales de France, Paris (AN); United Kingdom; The National Archives of the United Kingdom (TNA); British Broadcasting Corporation Written Archives at Caversham (BBC WAC); Official documents; Printed memoirs, diaries and contemporary texts; Local magazines; Radio; Websites; Printed secondary works; Unpublished theses; Index |
| Summary |
Children under the Allied bombs in France provides a unique perspective on the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War which killed around 57,000 French civilians. Using oral history as well as archival research, it provides an insight into children's wartime lives in which bombing often featured prominently, even though it has slipped out of French collective memory. How prepared were the French for this aerial onslaught? What was it like to be bombed? And how did people understand why their 'friends' across the Channel were attacking them? Divided into three parts dealing with expectations, experiences and explanations of bombing, this book considers the child's view of wartime violence, analysing resilience, understanding and trauma. It contributes significantly to scholarship on civilian life in Occupied France, and will appeal to students, academics and general readers interested in the history of Vichy France, oral history and the experiences of children in war.-- Provided by Publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- France
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Bombing, Aerial -- France -- History -- 20th century
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Bombing, Aerial
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Children
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Military campaigns
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Weltkrieg 1939-1945
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Luftangriff
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Kind
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France
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Frankreich
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France.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1784997412 |
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9781784997410 |
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9781784997854 |
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1784997854 |
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