War and identity : the French and the Second World War : an anthology of texts /: the French and the Second World War : an anthology of texts. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Colin W. Nettelbeck.
• Editors: Nettelbeck, Colin W
• Contents: 1. On the Eve of War: A Nation Divided 1.1. Léon Blum and the ‘Front Populaire’ 1.2. Civil War in Spain 1.3. ‘Mieux Hitler que Blum’ 1.4. Munich 1.5. The ‘Drôle de guerre’ 2. The Débâcle (10 May-20 June 1940) 2.1. Military Defeat 2.2. Dunkirk 2.3. Exodus 2.4. Armistice 2.5. De Gaulle’s Rebellion 2.6. The Defeat 3. Occupation I: Disillusionment and Illusions 3.1. Prisoners 3.2. A Humiliated People 3.3. Vichy and Paris 3.4. Glitter and Black Market 3.5. Germany: the Promised Land 3.6. De Gaulle Seen from Vichy 4. Occupation II: Abjection and Hope 4.1. The Jewish Question 4.2. Nazi France 4.3. Resistance 4.4. Timid Beginnings 4.5. ‘Le Parti des fusillés’ 4.6. Towards Liberation 5. Liberation, Purge and the Quest for a New France 5.1. Getting Rid of the Germans 5.2. ‘L’Épuration’ 5.3. The Search for Unity 6. Looking Back 6.1. Colonial Disaster 6.2. The Return of de Gaulle 6.3. The War Revisited
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 940.5344; World War, 1939-1945 -- France; Group identity -- France -- History -- 20th century; National characteristics, French
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000460223; 9781000460186; 9781003207450
• Related ISBNs: 9781032075105
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