War and Identity (eBook, ePUB)

The French and the Second World War: An Anthology of Texts
Redaktion: Nettelbeck, Colin W.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1987, examines the elements that constitute the French identity through the experience of the Second World War - a constant point of reference, a landmark to which the collective consciousness returns again and again.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000460223
• Artikelnr.: 62652363

Autorenporträt

Colin W. Nettelbeck

Inhaltsangabe

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