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France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944

Online ISBN:
9780191677465
Print ISBN:
9780198207061
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
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France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944

Julian Jackson
Julian Jackson
Professor of History, University of Wales, Swansea
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Published:
26 April 2001
Online ISBN:
9780191677465
Print ISBN:
9780198207061
Publisher:
Oxford University Press

Abstract

This book examines French experiences of occupation during the ‘Black Years’ of 1940–1944. Pulling together previously separate ‘histories’ of occupation, resistance, and collaboration it presents a definitive history of the period. This is a more complex history than the traditional dichotomy between ‘collaboration’ and ‘resistance’, one in which the ideological frontiers between Vichy and the Resistance were often blurred. This study ranges from the politics of Marshal Pétain’s regime to the experiences of the ordinary French people, from surrender in 1940 to the purges of liberation. The book restores the organized Resistance to a more central role than has been customary in recent years and presents a new social history of the resistance which takes in the roles of foreigners, women, Jews, and peasants. It uncovers the long term roots of the Vichy regime in political and social conflict and cultural crisis stretching back to the Great War and concludes by tracing the lasting legacy and memory of occupation since 1945.

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